The Virginia Department of Corrections described the incident as a "premeditated stabbing" targeting three corrections ...

An attack by inmates at a Virginia prison injured five guards, according to state corrections officials who said most of the assailants were MS-13 gang members who entered the U.S. illegally. The ...

CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Clayton County correctional officer has been fired and arrested after investigators say he attacked an inmate during a confrontation inside the jail. According to Clayton ...

A second correctional officer who allegedly had “romantic history” with the female guard later encouraged another detainee to hit the inmate in the back of the head with a digital tablet in ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is set to lower the minimum hiring age for prison guards from 21 to 18, seeking to boost the ...

One of six New York state prison guards indicted on murder charges in connection with the beating death of an inmate has pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. Christopher Walrath ...

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over ...

A correctional officer has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the December death of inmate Robert Brooks ... was one of six guards charged with second-degree murder in the beating.

Details emerge on Florida GOP vice chair Jovanté Teague’s past crime, including an inappropriate relationship with an inmate ...