Ten inmates escaped from a New Orleans jail almost two months ago, and authorities have captured all but the man with the ...

A Hot Springs Village man charged with capital murder in the alleged shooting deaths of his wife and unborn child has been ...

Two deputies were sent to the hospital after an inmate attacked them with a homemade weapon at Polk County Jail.

Signs of squalor are everywhere: inmates sleeping on floors, rotting food, piles of trash, inoperable toilets, broken pipes, ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten men who broke out of a New Orleans jail last week clogged a toilet to get the water shut off so that they could escape through a hole behind it, a lawyer for a maintenance ...

In a statement, Sheriff Johnny Moats said staff were collecting lunch trays from cells when an inmate, Dewayne Young, became ...

The closure of the country’s main prison for housing sex offenders has been recommended as a top priority by a group set up ...

CEDARTOWN, Ga. — Two Polk County Jail officers were hospitalized Saturday after being stabbed multiple times by an inmate wielding a homemade weapon, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

I HAVE BEEN IN PRISON for more than 30 years. When I came to prison, the corrections goal was isolation, retribution, and punishment. In the past decade, ...

Cuyahoga County officials say no one incarcerated in the jail needed treatment for heat illness. People inside say it was ...

News World Denied toilet access, made to kneel overnight: US deportee says he was tortured in El Salvador prison Denied toilet access, made to kneel overnight: US deportee says he was tortured in El ...