The topic was whether life without parole should be abolished. The inmates said the opportunity gave them purpose.

An inmate died while at the Shelby County jail Friday morning, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The inmate ...

An officer suffered serious injuries after an inmate attacked him in a stairwell at a maximum-security prison in Northern ...

DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston held a press conference Thursday afternoon to announce the arrests of two ...

The Utah Department of Corrections said Michael Bueno was removed from life support and died Saturday. He attempted suicide ...

Reps. Laurel Lee and Hank Johnson introduce House bill to fight alarming rate of sex assaults in federal corrections officers ...

A former inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center said Sean 'Diddy' Combs appeared to have 'groupies' in jail with him.

Additional charges have been lodged against Lycoming County Prison inmate Phillip Leslie Morgan Jr., who has been incarcerated since Nov. 9 on offenses stemming from a disturbance in his neighborhood.

A lawsuit claims El Paso County failed to properly protect 57-year-old Jesus Torres before he was viciously killed in jail.

Lawrence Sumlin, an inmate at Shelby County jail, died under unexplained circumstances, sparking a TBI investigation.

A fight among inmates has left 15 dead and 14 injured at Ecuador’s largest prison. The Litoral Penitentiary in the coastal ...

Tennessee’s correction commissioner continued to defend the state’s private-prison operator as a “good partner” Wednesday ...