Court-appointed monitors of Sacramento County jails say a man’s fatal overdose was one of multiple deaths in which deputies and nurses exhibited a “callous” indifference toward detainees.

The Republican State Senator says the hospitalization of staff from an unknown substance should be a wakeup call.

In 1979, something extraordinary occurred at the Powhatan Correctional Center outside of Richmond, Virginia.

Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing to close two state prisons and two community corrections centers in a cost-saving measure that his administration projects would save Pennsylvania more than $110 million ...

James Silvia, who has twice escaped from the state prison, will get a parole hearing. He once covered himself in hand lotion and slipped out a window of the supermax prison.

The Oakland County Sheriff's Department is searching for a suspect wanted for breaking into homes and targeting young girls.

The county’s jail oversight board approved monthly $125 payments through August from a fund used by inmates to purchase hygiene products, ...

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam returned to the Centre County Courthouse on Thursday for the first time in more than four decades.

Parents are speaking out about a violent spree of break-ins targeting young, adolescent girls that the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ordered the mega-prison Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, built as he began his ...

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald announced Tuesday that Christopher Matacia, 33, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was charged ...

Route 66’s Centennial year adding to its legendary stature and the perfect time to explore one of the USA’s most iconic road ...