As the state grapples with critical understaffing in New York prisons, local county jails face rising numbers of convicted ...

Richard Glossip, a former Oklahoma Death Row inmate, awaits a potential third trial inside the Oklahoma County Jail after the ...

USA TODAY's initial analysis of previously secret records shows how numbers of in-custody overdoses, murders and suicides changed pre-pandemic.

The Monterey County District Attorney's Office announced the conviction of Salinas Valley State Prison Inmate Jaime Demicio Romero for the 2nd degree murder of another inmate on Thursday.

Authorities are searching for Amy Kapetanious, an inmate who was last seen being transported to the Louisville Metro ...

The corrections officer is facing a state jail felony charge of tampering with a governmental record, and a misdemeanor ...

According to human rights groups, people who are detained in El Salvador's megaprison are unable to contact their families or their lawyers. NBC News' David Noriega traveled to El Salvador and spoke ...

A 55-year-old man was found hanging in his cell at the Spokane County Jail last week. Jail staff found the man in the cell at 4:58 p.m. and immediately started first aid, Spokane County spokesperson ...

An inmate at Jefferson City Correctional Center has been charged with several felonies after authorities say he stabbed his cellmate in 2023. Robert Zimmer, 21, was charged on Wednesday in Cole County ...

The man who police say firebombed the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence using two Heineken bottles filled with gasoline has ...

Crimo opened fire at an Independence Day parade that wounded nearly 50 more people in addition to the seven deaths.

A 35-year-old Lincoln man has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for throwing a tennis ball with drugs inside onto the grounds of a Lincoln prison.