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

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

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

A June 24 substation fire caused an all-day power outage that cut off the system that cools the Cuyahoga County jail in ...

A Council of Europe committee has highlighted the poor infrastructural condition of the Corradino Correctional Facility, ...

Dutch murder convict Joran van der Sloot may be transferred from Peru to a notorious and vast prison complex in El Salvador, ...

An inmate was stabbed in a prison gang attack involving a shiv, tin in a sock and pool balls, a court has heard. The victim ...

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.

A series of sewage leaks caused by Clay County Jail inmates forced the sheriff's department to move several of its units to ...