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Inside North Carolina prisons, 13 inmates killed themselves last year. Three more died in January. State officials say they ...

Deputies from Nash County are assisting in the search near the North Carolina coast for a possible prison escapee, officials ...

A prison in the North Country has reopened after a dayslong lockdown initiated after dozens of corrections officers, inmates ...

The lockdown at Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone officially ended on Tuesday, according to a post from the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they’d struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship ...

A twice-convicted sex offender was sentenced to up to 10 years in state prison for possessing and promoting a sexual ...

A former high-ranking S.C. Department of Corrections guard bought cryptocurrency with some of the hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and profits she made. She pleaded guilty.

By Brett Rains Click here for updates on this story LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (KHBS/KHOG) -- Newly filed bills during the legislative ...

ALBANY — An investigation into a series of episodes in which state prison workers have been rushed to hospitals after ...

The reactions come amid a broader directive from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) under President Donald Trump, aimed ...

A Dooly State Prison inmate is dead, Dooly County Coroner Brett Walls said. Walls said that a 58-year-old man was found dead ...