Discontent has been growing among corrections officers as they say they are forced to work extensive amounts of overtime due ...

The new lawsuit, alleging Maine Correctional Center officers stayed in a pregnant woman's hospital room while she gave birth, is similar to a case against the Cumberland County Jail that was recently ...

A central provision of New York state law — its prohibition on public-employee strikes — is at risk of breaking into pieces, ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

BOSTON ― Former state Sen. Dean A. Tran has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after his conviction on charges of wire ...

Five inmates at the Central Maryland Correctional Facility in Sykesville have been convicted in two separate stabbings at the ...

The suit says that for years, Dr. Scott Lee was the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women ...

Brooks wasn’t able to join the “second-chance club,” as his father called it, after corrections officers violently beat him ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration says it's recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp amid longer-term national trends of shrinking prison populations.

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.

During a sentencing hearing Monday, Maria Patricio, 63, the central figure in Operation Blooming Onion was sentenced to about one year in prison.