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

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

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.

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… ...

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.

The Supreme Court announced it will take up the case of a devout Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by Louisiana prison guards.

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump is seeking to cancel $500 million for a planned federal prison on a former mine in Eastern Kentucky.

A federal judge has denied an emergency request from R. Kelly to be released from prison to home confinement amid murder plot allegations.

R. Kelly lawyers allege he is a target of murder plot after overdose in prison R. Kelly was hospitalized for an overdose after prison staff gave him "an amount of medicine that could have killed ...

R. Kelly's attorneys file an emergency motion seeking home detention, alleging that prison officials are scheming with racist inmates to have the singer killed.