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 ...

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 ...

A corrections officer who was present when a patient died at the state prison's psychiatric unit testified Wednesday that she tried to calm the patient down before he was restrained.

Four former correction officers appeared in court Thursday in connection with the death of Mid-State Correctional Facility inmate Messiah Nantwi.The officers, f ...

A West Virginia corrections officer who pleaded guilty on charges related to the assault and death of an inmate at Southern Regional Jail in 2022 was sentenced Monday.

The officer in Passaic County admitted to helping transport an inmate through an area of the jail without any surveillance cameras, officials said.

JACKSON COUNTY, MI – A Michigan Department of Corrections Officer accused of smuggling drugs into the prison that employs him near Jackson has been sentenced to jail and probation.

A former state Department of Corrections officer pleaded guilty Friday to attempting to cover up the murder in an upstate prison of a Harlem man who died from a beating by other officers.

Former corrections officer Justin Christopher Andrews is not expected to spend time behind bars after a judge suspended his sentences at Wednesday's sentencing hearing.

The Citizen looks at what life is currently like inside the prison through dozens of interviews with past and present correction officers, incarcerated individuals and their families.

An Onondaga County Correctional Officer faced disciplinary actions for inappropriate contact with a female inmate at the Jamesville Correctional Facility.

Levi David Gray, a former corrections officer at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, has been sentenced to 20 months in prison.