A St. Paul man convicted of attempted murder after firing multiple shots at his mother in front of Metro State University in ...

Hundreds more lawsuits alleging sexual assault by staff from New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, ...

A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on ...

A N.J. appeals court rules that the state Department of Corrections 'failed' to conduct a meaningful investigation.

The Colorado Department of Corrections can house about 15,077 men across state and privately run prisons. The male population ...

Former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters is asking the state appeals court to recognize President Donald Trump's pardon of ...

Prison guards have been accused of more than 120 acts of brutality that amounted to torture in the past decade in New York, a ...

South Dakota reported eight fatal inmate overdoses in 2025, primarily linked to synthetic K2, outpacing neighboring states with no confirmed prison overdose deaths.

Massachusetts correction officers say ‘more needs to be done’ to stop drug smuggling, as DOC reports contraband busts ...

Jordan Ward isn’t one of the eight men killed by an overdose in a South Dakota prison in 2025, but a lawsuit filed this year ...

"Punishing incarcerated people for refusing to work indeed violates the state constitution’s ban on involuntary servitude and ...

With the changes agreed to with the legislature, the bill codifies the requirement that cameras be installed in all ...