UTICA — A third New York state corrections officer has pleaded guilty in connection with the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this year at a Central New York prison.

Corrections officers in Restoring Promise units report high morale, a strong sense of purpose and a calmer, more predictable work environment that fosters a sense of community rather than conflict.

At the State House, a parent’s plea before the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security to pass Matt’s Law, named for Corrections Officer Matt Tidman, badly injured in an attack ...

OAKLAND, California — Two former correctional officers at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, have been charged with the sexual abuse of female inmates. Jeffrey Wilson, 34, and ...

Two weeks before he was to be released from prison, Patrick Odale was pepper-sprayed, held down and killed by corrections officers, according to a lawsuit filed this week. The mother of his ...

COLUMBIA -- On Friday afternoon, just an hour and a half before South Carolina was set to execute the first person in more than a decade, more than a dozen protestors stood on the sidewalk outside of ...

An arbitration award that granted corrections officers at Lancaster County Prison additional paid leave for working in extreme temperatures will remain in place, after a judge this week denied the ...

A Monroe County corrections officer, along with three others, face charges for smuggling drugs into jail in a Bible.

TEXARKANA, Texas -- One of the two people killed last week in De Kalb was a Texas corrections officer who interrupted a burglary in progress at his home, Bowie County, ...

TEXARKANA, Texas -- One of the two people killed last week in De Kalb was a Texas corrections officer who interrupted a burglary in progress at his home, Bowie County, Texas, Sheriff Jeff Neal ...

In a disturbing string of incidents, corrections officers at a county jail have become the center of allegations, ranging from inappropriate relationships with inmates to smuggling contraband. In ...