Inside a ‘Nightmare’ Lockdown at a Wisconsin Prison Inmates who have been confined mostly to their cells for more than four months describe unsanitary conditions and a dearth of medical care.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had restricted inmate movements and suspended privileges at 21 prisons because of a statewide surge in violence.

With over $170 billion allocated through Trump’s megabill, we are witnessing the creation of a vast, permanent enforcement ...

Inmates at a New York prison are suing the state corrections department over a lockdown of the prisons on April 8 during the solar eclipse.

The Clinton County DA's office says 21-year-old Hailey Gillott of Lock Haven pled guilty on Tuesday to various criminal ...

Officials say the Texas prison system's 100 units have been placed on a statewide lockdown due to a series of drug-related inmate homicides.

In March 1997, an inmate at Arizona's Perryville Prison broke out of a cell with a faulty lock and stabbed a corrections officer to death. In November 2000, an inmate escaped his poorly secured ...

Remorseless paedophile Kenneth Cooke was released back onto the streets of the capital this morning– as the sister he abused ...

President Trump called on his administration to reopen and expand Alcatraz so authorities could send the “dregs of society” to the notorious California prison more than six decades after it ...

A state prison was locked down after uprising inmates injured three guards and took control of three dorms — days after the state’s Department of Corrections head complained about staffing ...

A jail entered lockdown after authorities realized a convicted murderer had gone missing from their care.

Trump’s prison state is not a defense of America. It’s the destruction of everything America was meant to defend. We can pursue justice without abandoning the Constitution.