A grand jury in Oneida County has handed up charges against correction officers involved in the Dec. 9 beating of an inmate ...

A former correction officer at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Westchester will now see the other side of a prison cell for his role in a scheme to smuggle contraband cellphones to inmates, ...

Jeremy Gentry was sentenced to life in prison with all but 25 years suspended by Karen M. Dean, associate judge of Circuit ...

Two men convicted of a Port Wentworth murder now face the possibility of life in prison without parole. According to the Chatham County District Attorney's Office, Jahaune Butler and Keroney King were ...

Attorneys and advocacy organizations are navigating an increase in federal immigration arrests — and rampant rumors and misinformation.

JOHNSON COUNTY —A Kansas teen is going to prison for a fight and a shooting with a police officer's gun at the Oak Park Mall ...

A former Navy detective and El Cajon police officer who choked a handcuffed Navy sailor at Naval Base San Diego to the point of unconsciousness was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison.

Robert Ricks, the father of Robert Brooks who died after corrections officers beat him at Marcy Correctional Facility, spoke at a joint hearing of the State Assembly and Senate.

Maricopa County Sheriff Sheridan announced jail employees would no longer be scanned for contraband or drugs, saying: “We hire the best employees on the planet, and I trust every single one of them.” ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

The sentence came after the court noted the man's "abhorrent behavior, his lack of remorse, the court’s need to protect the ...

Prison union officials are worried that the now-shuttered Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin might be turned into an ...