Following initial progress, staffing vacancies are again rising in Wisconsin prisons. Improving training, safety and ...

Following initial progress, staffing vacancies are again rising in Wisconsin prisons. Improving training, safety and workplace culture would help retain officers, some say.

Two more former prison guards have been charged with sexually abusing female inmates at a federal prison in Dublin which became known as "the rape club," authorities announced Thursday.

The notorious director of a brutal Iranian jail escaped just before airstrikes, after Israeli sources contacted his son with a warning: have your father open the prison doors, or he will be targeted.

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

The Hutchinson Correctional Facility was put on lockdown in May and June for excessive drug use, according to a Kansas state representative.

Jury wanted death, but judge chose life in prison for love triangle murder ‘mastermind' Last June, eight out of 12 jurors recommended a death sentence instead of life in prison for Ysrael Granda ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A proposed new men’s prison in Nebraska drew a $313 million bid from Hausmann Construction of Lincoln, Nebraska, the state Department of Corrections said. The… ...

Shanteari Young, a Baltimore County daycare owner who shot her husband when she learned he was sexually abusing children, has been released from prison.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The South Dakota Project Prison Reset task force could have two more sites to consider for a possible new men’s prison. The two new possible sites are in nort… ...

Staffers in Washington's only women's prison repeatedly used excessive force, according to a report from the state's Office of the Corrections Ombuds.