The department's own numbers show it has fewer wheelchairs than the number of inmates with prescriptions for them, says ...

Willie James, Jr. will be sentenced in April after being convicted of second-degree murder.

A former Michigan Department of Corrections officer will spend time behind bars himself after smuggling drugs to inmates.

A coast man is one of three inmates who have died at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility since Sunday.

MIDLAND, MI — A former Michigan corrections officer has been sentenced to probation and jail for smuggling drugs to a prisoner serving time for murder. Midland County Circuit Judge Stephen P. Carras ...

Mississippi would take more steps to investigate prison deaths, under a proposal that’s advancing through the Legislature.

The county has already paid almost $3 million since 2023 to study the Harris County Jail, the state's largest pre-trial detention system, records show.

District Attorney W. Crosby Parker says 43-year-old Nicholas Lashaun Unger pleaded guilty this week to attempted murder in ...

The Mississippi House passed several bills this week aimed at improving the quality of medical care in Mississippi prisons ...

BREAKING NEWS AT FOUR A PRISON CORRECTIONS OFFICER IS DEAD. ANOTHER IS IN A HOSPITAL AFTER AN INMATE ATTACKED THEM. IT HAPPENED AT RIVER NORTH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN INDEPENDENCE. NOW INDEPENDENCE ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A new report by the Orange County Corrections Department Research Unit showcasing the county facility's “Average Daily Population with ICE Detainers” found that the number of ...

• Virginia corrections officer Jeremy Lewis Hall died after an inmate attack Monday at River North Correctional Center in Independence, according to the Virginia Department of Corrections. • Two other ...