Authorities are investigating the death of a female inmate at the Genesee County Jail on Thursday. The Genesee County Sheriff ...

Something happened that was not supposed to happen,” said the attorney who represents the 13 women who sued California prison ...

Nelcy Escorcia, center, holds a sign with a message reading in Spanish; “Thinking differently isn’t a crime; isolating and ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – A former Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility corrections officer accused of engaging in sexual acts with multiple prisoners while working at the facility has pleaded ...

Two women have died at the Dayton Correctional Institution in the past 10 months as the state women’s prison has struggled ...

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Those efforts include the $1.2-billion project currently underway to build the new Thunder Bay Correctional Complex, plus new ...

Plaintiffs did not provide enough evidence that it would be “cruel and unusual punishment,” judges say.

In the lobby of the Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Jared Rigby pointed to framed photos of the county’s different Sheriff’s Office buildings over time. The first was built in 1882.

Friends and advocates for 41-year-old inmate Krystal Clark appeared at a press conference Friday to urge the governor to ...

Adek Stein – a Holocaust survivor from Bialystok, Poland – looked anxiously about the room, struggling with the question he’d ...