Last fall, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) confirmed that at least six inmates burned themselves — though ...

Secretary of Corrections Laurel Harry said Monday that her department is planning to grow the program from the current unit ...

New York state police are investigating the death of an inmate as the state corrections system continues to be roiled by a ...

The state attorney general’s alleges that officers “allowed and, in some instances, encouraged” 69 fights among the youth.

New York officials have started to fire state prison guards who failed to comply with a deal to end their illegal labor strike, which is now in its third week.

Eventually social furloughs, available to only well-behaved inmates in minimum security, fell out of favor “because our directors all got very nervous because of the Willie Horton situation,” says ...

Arkansas lawmakers filed an appropriations bill to support construction of a Franklin County prison that officials estimated ...

Seven prisoners died as thousands of corrections officers at dozens of facilities protested working conditions in wildcat ...

A Pittsburgh man is facing additional charges after allegedly running from corrections officers in an attempt to escape the ...

Corrections officers who are still striking have been put on notice. In a statement issued Sunday afternoon, New York state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner Daniel ...

The MSP says off-duty corrections officer Jesse Freeman helped get an intoxicated subject who was resisting arrest taken into ...

The state says it is ramping up its consequences for corrections officers who have been on an unsanctioned, illegal strike, ...