An inmate has died inside of the DeKalb County Jail, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office says. On Wednesday, deputies inside ...

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. - A 48-year-old woman is dead after being found unconscious in her Henry County Jail cell. Her death was ...

Colorado prosecutors on Friday argued additional charges against James Craig, a dentist accused of fatally poisoning his wife, as new details were revealed in court about ...

A former Jay County Jail correction officer pleaded guilty Friday to engaging in sexual relations with an inmate.

San Salvador — It takes about 90 minutes to drive from El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, to the most notorious prison in the country. Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, ...

I was relieved because I was like ‘ok he’s in jail now, he’s going to be ok, he’s safe.’ But I guess I was wrong,” Thelma said. “ The jail did not protect him. He was not safe in jail.” ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

A former correction officer at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Westchester will now see the other side of a prison cell ...

Connecticut's attorney general has recommended paying $3.75 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of Carl Robert Talbot ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) plans to veto a bill that would prevent the state’s prison system from collaborating with ...

A former Orange County sheriff’s deputy broke the law when he poured scalding water on the arm of a mentally ill defendant to ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.