A brawl involving at least 20 inmates prompted a temporary lockdown of the Santa Clara County Jail Thursday, officials said. The altercation started with two inmates at 3:10 p.m. in Module 4A, Sheriff ...

A violent altercation erupted at a medium-security correctional facility last weekend, resulting in injuries to five officers and a lieutenant. The incident occurred on Saturday, April 12, in the ...

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro is being locked up in a 'hellhole' prison where inmates have described rampant violence, ...

A fight among 200 inmates at an Arizona prison left several inmates and a guard injured on Thursday, NBC station KPNX and The Arizona Republic reported. The brawl occurred around 5:30 p.m. local time ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Six officers were hurt and three inmates were transferred to other institutions after a brawl at Kern Valley State Prison on Thursday, officials said. Officials with the ...

Twenty people have been charged and a final arrest has been made in connection to a prison brawl that left three inmates dead ...

Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith has thrown down the gauntlet with the head of the Blue Ribbon Commission, LaDoris Cordell. Smith sent an angry e-mail message to Cordell saying the head of the ...

REDWOOD CITY — Half a dozen inmates and four deputies were injured Friday morning when a brawl broke out at the Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City, authorities said. Related Articles I-280 ...

A fight involving as many as 30 inmates at the Mack Alford Correctional Center on Tuesday was an outgrowth of a larger problem in the Oklahoma prison system, a leader of a professional organization ...

Twenty people have been charged in connection with the deaths of three inmates who were killed in a maximum-security prison brawl in eastern Nevada last year, prosecutors said. The final arrest in the ...

HOMINY -- A Sunday morning melee among inmates at a correctional facility in Hominy led to one person being taken by helicopter to a Tulsa hospital. The Dick Conner Correctional Center was locked down ...