A former lieutenant at Tennessee's largest prison said he found the decomposing body of an inmate whom guards had counted as ...

A prisoner who was being discharged from York Hospital has been accused of assaulting a York County Prison guard and trying ...

The Supreme Court ruled that a Louisiana prisoner whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved off by prison guards cannot sue the ...

A prison officer formerly worked for the UK government before she was sentenced to jail because she admitted to having an ...

A Virginia appeals court upheld the firing of a prison guard caught on video assaulting an inmate and joking about it.

The Supreme Court has been friendly to religious liberty claims and hostile to lawsuits seeking damages against government ...

Inmates at the Bertie-Martin Detention Center seized control of the facility at 5 a.m. Monday morning, according to the NC ...

The man admitted in court that he had a romantic sexual relationship with one of the women being held in his prison; he's now been sentenced to three years in prison.