The Department of Corrections will not offer a promised diesel mechanic training program in a space once occupied by a ...

Kathy Hochul weighs which prisons to close this year amid declining incarceration rates and a corrections staffing crisis, advocates and formerly incarcerated people are c ...

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was captured on video putting his knee on George Floyd’s neck for more than 8 minutes, has been transferred to a maximum-security ...

From the beginning, the escape from Clinton Correctional Facility by David Sweat and Richard Matt has been described "like something out of a movie." The story was ripe for moviemakers and their ...

It’s been over a month since inmates at one of Virginia’s maximum security correctional centers – Wallens Ridge-- attacked ...

On June 6th, 2015, two convicted murderers escaped from the prison in Dannemora, kicking off a three-week manhunt that made history.

Picture: Google Ms Shuard said the dedicated cell block would be a “prison cell block” in a maximum security facility. “They won’t be mixing with prisoners, that’s why we have selected ...

Prison authorities give solitary confinement names like administrative segregation (AdSeg), restrictive housing or management ...

Explore the top 10 most secure prisons in the world where escape is impossible. Read how these facilities maintain extreme ...

There are plenty of hideouts in the rugged terrain of the Ozark Mountains where searchers are hunting for an ex-lawman known ...

A federal judge has denied a legal attempt, for now, to prevent the U.S. government from transferring former death row ...

Hardin escaped Sunday from the North Central Unit — a medium-security prison also known as the Calico Rock prison — by impersonating a corrections officer "in dress and manner," according to a court ...