A state board found last year that the county repeatedly failed to meet minimum staffing requirements at the facility.

More than half of those incarcerated suffer from mental health illness. That's the driving force for Metro Community College's criminal justice program adding a mental health course.

State authorities said this week that they were still finalizing a re-inspection of Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey. A judge is waiting on those results before deciding whether the county will be ...

A grand jury in Oneida County has handed up charges against correction officers involved in the Dec. 9 beating of an inmate ...

The Acting Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Sylvester Ndidi, has announced plans to develop an ...

The outcome of the appeal, brought by GEO Group, could set important legal precedent on wages for detainees who work in ...

The Mississippi House has passed a bill that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical care provided to prison inmates.

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Two men convicted of murder, including one who spent more than 25 years on Death Row, were executed by lethal injection ...

St. Louis activist Khanika Harper found the perfect way to marry her passion for justice with the power of love: She became a ...