Inmates in Bolivia's overcrowded prisons are now able to reduce their jail time by reading books in a new program influenced by one in Brazil that aims to spread literacy and give hope despite a ...

During a recent visit to a New Orleans prison, the Cash Money Records' co-founder sparked a wave of controversy with his ...

The compounds housing these prisoners which make up over 18,000 (11.8%) of the prison population have double fenced razor wire, electrical charged fencing, perimeter patrols and secure cells.

Corrections officers met with the department’s administration on Sept. 3 in attempt to bargain, and the transfer began on ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Seven inmates were hospitalized Tuesday morning after a suspected overdose incident at the Men's Central Jail near downtown Los Angeles, officials said. Shortly before 7 a.m ...

An inmate at Westchester County Jail died while in custody Friday of a possible drug overdose, The Post has learned. Dereck Ali, who was locked up on assault and weapons charges out of Yonkers ...

A manhunt is still on for four South Carolina inmates who escaped from the Chesterfield County Detention Center early Tuesday morning. Chesterfield County officials said Emanuel Robson Planco ...

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office in Florida confirmed that all inmates and deputies were safe following Hurricane Milton's arrival on Wednesday night. On Tuesday afternoon, a Manatee County ...

“I definitely am so much more for overthrowing the government after what they did to me,” former Patriot Wing inmate Brandon Fellows added in the piece. “I’m totally down. Especially if ...

Your support makes all the difference. As of Tuesday afternoon, the state had “successfully relocated 4,636 inmates without compromising public safety and additional evacuations are underway ...