Once billed as rehabilitative alternatives to prisons, these facilities are the sites of fatal overdoses—like that which ...

Washington County Sheriff Joel Cochran released the identities of the three Washington State inmates dead after several ...

Eric Johnson and Deshawn Thomas both died inside Nevada prisons this month, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced ...

A man charged with robbing a bank wants to plead guilty to stabbing a fellow Marion County Jail inmate accused of murder.

The death of an inmate at the Cummins Unit near Grady on Monday is under investigation, prison officials said. Rand Champion, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Corrections, said an internal ...

The Bristol County Sheriff's Office has gone three straight years without an inmate suicide. The sheriff's office studied the problem of inmate suicide and has implemented 23 recommendations.

A federal judge has awarded just over $130,000 to two sets of attorneys who represented a Muslim inmate in a case alleging that the Arkansas Department of Corrections failed to accommodate his ...

Roughly every five years, a new SpongeBob SquarePants movie comes along and inflicts another hallucinatory, surreal adventure on children and their unwary cinemagoing parents. Sometimes these ...

A Simpsonville woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing her three-year-old daughter. An inmate already serving a 30-year sentence received an additional 40 years for his role in ...

Five staff members from the George Beto Unit state prison near Tennessee Colony have been relieved of duty after a recent ...

A Texas death row inmate claims he received a total of three emails from the late Rob and Michele Reiner that reached him behind bars following their tragic deaths. Nanon Williams told NBC News he had ...

A Lancaster city man will spend up to 20 years in state prison for threatening a security guard at an East Hempfield Township bar. Devin Edward Garcia-Rogers, 29, formerly of the 500 block of Ruby ...