A 64-year-old inmate was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty in December to first-degree murder in the death of his cellmate at Jessup Correctional Institution. Anne Arundel Circuit ...

A top official at the Oklahoma Department of Corrections has hopes AI may reduce violence at Allen Gamble Correctional Center in Holdenville.

Facing a pending lawsuit from the California Attorney General's office over dire conditions in the jail system, officials at ...

Currently, Orange County is reimbursed $88 per inmate by the federal government, although Quiñones said the actual cost is $180 per inmate, resulting in a loss for the jail on every detainee. Orange ...

The transfer follows a $50,000 emergency medical funding approval last month, bringing the total to nearly $60,000 in ...

Mayor Jerry Demings says Orange County Corrections has adopted measures to reduce the jail's daily population of ICE ...

Florida has executed Ronald Heath, who became a murderer when he was 16 and killed two other men when he was released from ...

Eric Antwan Roberts, who was arrested in 2010 on assault charges, was pronounced dead in the Macon State Prison around 5:30 p.m., Coroner Eddie Hosley said.

As a part of a yearlong study, Texas county jails are collecting data about pregnant inmates’ prenatal care, mental health indicators, pregnancy outcomes and more.

Keeping existing prisons open could strain the state’s General Fund budget. ADOC is seeking close to $868 million from the $3 ...

Alex Murdaugh, convicted killer of his wife and son, will likely not attend Wednesday’s appeal of his conviction in S.C. Supreme Court.

The number of inmates in state custody has gone up by about 2,000 in the two years since the Louisiana Legislature passed a ...