The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office recommended closing the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad to help California reduce its corrections spending. Andrew Kuhn [email protected] ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – At The New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe in 1980 was one of the most violent prison riots in U.S. history. Resulting in 33 deaths and many more injuries, this riot ...

Twenty-three inmates escaped and one guard was killed after armed men stormed a prison in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta, which has been under siege by cartel members since drug lord ...

A manhunt is underway in western Mexico after at least 23 inmates escaped during a riot at a prison in Puerto Vallarta following the killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, nicknamed “El Mencho,” the ...

A former California correctional lieutenant, Matthew L. Madsen, was arrested on federal charges alleging he smuggled cellphones and tobacco to an inmate in exchange for $100,000 in bribes. Prosecutors ...

(KRON) — Serial child predator David Allen Funston was granted parole and he was released from a California prison on Thursday. But he didn’t get very far before deputies swooped in, re-arrested him, ...

David Allen Funston was convicted in 1999 in Sacramento County of 16 counts of kidnapping and child molestation. According to prosecutors who handled the case, Funston would approach children playing ...

Joseph Mendoza, 36, was stabbed nearly 180 times and died at the Salinas Valley State Prison. Someone on staff captured video of the stabbing and leaked it where it appeared on social media, according ...