An Indiana judge is mandating sex reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate, extending the ongoing legal challenge to a ...

Convicted killer Scott Peterson suffered minor injuries at California's Mule Creek State Prison on Sunday, March 9, prison ...

A proposed law would make Connecticut's Department of Correction investigate for a second time using body scanners to reduce ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong ...

An investigation is underway after an inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento died after he was found with multiple ...

Twenty people have been charged in connection to a 2024 Nevada prison brawl that ended with three dead inmates, authorities said on Tuesday.

Albany, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday there are indications that “extremely disturbing conduct” led to the Saturday ...

MADISON, Wis. -- A sixth inmate has died at Wisconsin's oldest prison, less than a year after the then-warden and multiple ...

Raymond Gaines, an alleged former Boston gang member whose sentence was reduced in January by President Joe Biden, and Tasha Hammock of Bridgewater, an employee at the state Department of ...

Five inmates from the California State Prison, Sacramento were injured and taken to the hospital on Wednesday morning after ...

Inmate firefighters housed in California's county jails and state prisons would earn an hourly wage of up to $19 under ...