The city lease on the Joliet Correctional Center, and a state bill would transfer some of the land to the Forest Preserve ...

Joliet Patch previously reported on the Joliet police arrest of Manuel Cardenas. Now we have an update and details of his ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA/Gray News) - Two correctional officers have been charged after allegedly refusing to let an inmate out of his burning cell, which led to his death. Crystal Janelle West and ...

Rapper Pooh Shiesty, who was serving a more than five-year prison sentence for a Florida gun charge, has been released from federal prison custody, records show. The 25-year-old rapper, whose legal ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been helping his fellow inmates turn their lives around since being detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn in New York, according to one prisoner. Inmate Ho Wen ...

Plans to close an aging Jessup, Maryland, state prison next year include transferring inmates to at least two Hagerstown-area prisons and possibly all three, though details are not final, according to ...

The York County Coroner's office confirms an inmate at the York County Prison died on Sunday morning. Officials say 64-year-old Juan Ortiz-Ortiz was found unresponsive in his single cell and could not ...

(This story was updated to include the number of correctional officers at the three state prisons south of Hagerstown.) Plans to close an aging Jessup, Maryland, state prison next year include ...

PASQUOTANK COUNTY, N.C. — An inmate who killed four prison employees in a failed prison escape attempt in 2017 has been handed four consecutive life terms. Frazier was sentenced to four consecutive ...

AUBURN, N.Y. — The New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolence Association said a guard was stabbed by an inmate convicted of murder at the Auburn Correctional Facility. NYSCOPBA said ...

The bombs were mailed from a state prison to the Department of Justice and a federal court. The inmate tried to exchange information on the plot for accommodations, prosecutors said in court filings.

A former corrections officer who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a federal inmate has been sentenced to nine years and four months in prison. U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent in Cleveland ...