A Lorain County corrections officer is facing six misdemeanor charges after she allegedly performed an illegal cavity search ...

A "persistent violent felony offender" was sentenced for attacking a guard while serving time at Attica Correctional Facility ...

In Texas, a long-forgotten series of prison albums offers a rare way to hear what incarceration sounded like decades ago.

A correction officer at Brooklyn’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center has been arrested and charged with sexually ...

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is serving a nine-year sentence for her role in tampering with Mesa County’s ...

The county has been sending inmates out of state for more than a decade due to overcrowding and understaffing at the Harris County Jail in downtown Houston.

A Hackett man with a 32-year history of sexual assault-related crimes faces new charges related to child pornography police say they found on his phone.

A Cornelius man walked out of a Mecklenburg County courtroom Thursday without serving active prison time after pleading guilty in a case tied to child sexual-abuse material. Instead of immediate ...

A paperwork breakdown in Texas county jails has kept some people locked up after judges say they are free to go. The Dallas County jail held Jessica Jackson an extra 49 days even though a judge ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – KRQE News 13 is seeing the moments leading up to the arrest of a prominent Albuquerque defense attorney, who is accused of trying to smuggle drugs into a New Mexico prison.

A downstate woman gave birth while incarcerated after labor was induced without her consent, she writes. She is suing the Illinois Department of Corrections, alleging the IDOC failed to follow the ...

Isaac Cole, 39 at the time he was charged, while also be required to register as a sex offender upon his release.