Another inmate, 43-year-old Melvin Lopez, is accused of fatally stabbing Jonathan Robertson. He was booked on a murder count ...

Melvin Lopez, 43, was arrested by the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office in connection with the death of Jonathan ...

A 35-year-old inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary is dead after allegedly being stabbed by another inmate during a fight.

Authorities are investigating after an inmate's death at the Louisiana State Penitentiary on Jan. 24.

Fighting that broke out at a Georgia state prison over the weekend left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 more inmates, the Georgia Department of Corrections said Monday. The ...

Three inmates were killed and a corrections officer and several other inmates were injured when a fight broke out Sunday at a state prison in Georgia, according to local police.The fight that started ...

Nixon was arrested in the early 2000's and faced a 45-year sentence. Nixon previously had charges including armed robbery and ...

Three inmates are dead and 13 are injured following a fight at Washington State Prison in Davisboro. Local deputies and state troopers assisted the GDC in regaining control of the facility and ...

An inmate at the York County Prison died in his cell this week in what is being investigated as a suicide. The deceased, 34-year-old Adam Miller, had been held at the facility since January 3 on a ...

In a historic purchase, the former Wayne Correctional Center in Goldsboro, which shut down in 2013, was bought by a nonprofit founded by a formerly incarcerated man, WITN reports. Kerwin Pittman, the ...