Maricopa County Sheriff Sheridan announced jail employees would no longer be scanned for contraband or drugs, saying: “We hire the best employees on the planet, and I trust every single one of them.” ...

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.

A prisoner threw boiling water mixed with sugar over a prison officer, leaving her in 'agony' and needing multiple surgeries. Tony McDonald has now been jailed for 17 years.

A Norfolk man with a long history of domestic violence received the maximum sentence for his latest conviction on Thursday in ...

MADISON — District Judge James Kube had initially planned to sentence Solomon Partee to a lengthy prison term. But after ...

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.

A late-night chase across Union County ended with police catching a man who was wanted in Texas and driving while drunk, ...

THE CAMBRIA COUNTY PRISON WILL SOON SEE 11 NEW HIRES AS PART OF THE FIGHT AGAINST A NATIONAL SHORTAGE OF CORRECTIONAL ...

When Illinois shuttered the century-old maximum security facility last year, nearly four of every five inmates went to less-secure sites.

A former Marcy Correctional Facility inmate is suing the prison, a correction officers and several others for planting drugs on him.The one officer named in this suit admitted to doing the crime and ...

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