The union says not only is the practice unsafe, it also violates a court order. A claim the department declined to comment on ...

The strikes at 25 prisons across New York state are impacting many, including families of the staff stuck inside the prisons while workers strike outside. Correction ...

A former Orange County sheriff’s deputy was acquitted on Tuesday, Feb. 16, of using excessive force when pouring hot water on ...

Details surrounding the death of James Thomas Prater Jr. were not released, but the prison said no other inmates were ...

A former Orange County sheriff’s deputy was acquitted Tuesday of using excessive force when pouring hot water on the arm of a mentally ill defendant to get him to pull his hands back into his cell in ...

Cpl. Ray Cobb got tired of driving to his state prison job in Nashville 36 years ago so he took a turn working at the ...

A 55-year-old male inmate was found unresponsive in his cell at the Sangamon County Jail on Tuesday, at approximately 8:29 ...

Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon said a 55-year-old Sangamon County Jail inmate who was found unresponsive in his cell Tuesday morning later died at HSHS St. John's Hospital. Allmon did not release ...

Dominique Ware, 35, was taken to the hospital last Thursday after suffering some kind of medical emergency while in county ...

An Omaha man serving a sentence for felony shoplifting died Monday after being found unresponsive in his cell at the Douglas County Corrections Center.

Detention Officer Sgt. Khadijah Soloman, 47, is charged with one count of aggravated assault, one count of cruelty to inmates ...

The independent review says successive governments made "knee jerk" decisions to issue longer prison sentences.