A former Navy detective and El Cajon police officer who choked a handcuffed Navy sailor at Naval Base San Diego to the point of unconsciousness was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison.

Robert Ricks, the father of Robert Brooks who died after corrections officers beat him at Marcy Correctional Facility, spoke at a joint hearing of the State Assembly and Senate.

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Local, city, and county corrections officers are participating in a crucial jail management class designed to equip them with ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

"The staffing issue in the Department of Corrections is the number one issue in the state of New York of any agency we have," said NYS Sen. Robert Rolison (R-39th District), while questioning NYDOCCS ...

Cambria County has a new elections director after the commissioners voted unanimously to hire internally at Thursday's meeting. Nicole Burkhardt was moved from full-time head clerk for voter ...

A former Hamilton County corrections officer will spend 9 months in prison after he was convicted of sexual battery against a female inmate.

Quincy Scott's sentence was handed down during a Thursday afternoon hearing. He was convicted of ordering an inmate to ...

As state legislators work to craft complex and costly plans to fix Georgia’s troubled prison system, they may face an extra challenge: Conditions inside the wire appear to be getting even worse.