Two local corrections officers were injured by an inmate Thursday, a Georgia Department of Corrections spokesperson confirmed ...

Federal authorities are searching for Arthur Cofield after he escaped from a minimum-security prison camp in Jesup.

As a Georgia inmate, Arthur Lee Cofield Jr. was accused of orchestrating a scheme to steal from a Hollywood movie producer ...

All of the Georgia Department of Corrections' facilities around the state have been placed on lockdown after "altercation" at ...

HABERSHAM COUNTY, Ga. - A lieutenant from the Georgia Department of Corrections, stationed at Lee Arrendale State Prison in Alto, was arrested May 1. Russell Edwin Clark, a resident of Alto, faces ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A correctional officer at a southeast Georgia prison was killed after he was assaulted with a "homemade weapon" by an inmate, ...

A federal court jury in Macon ruled Monday in favor of the defendant in a lawsuit filed by a state prison inmate who claimed a corrections officer beat him. The complaint was filed by inmate Garrett ...

The Georgia Department of Corrections is short nearly half of its corrections officers due to a high job-turnover rate, Commissioner Tyrone Oliver told state lawmakers during budget hearings Thursday.

ATLANTA (AP) — A Black transgender woman on Monday sued Georgia prison officials, saying they have failed to protect her from repeated sexual assaults behind bars and failed to provide her with ...