A federal judge on Monday stripped control of the Rikers Island jail complex from New York City and ordered the appointment ...

Three more inmates have been charged in a fatal beating of a Mountain View man at a Santa Clara County jail, court records show. The attack was allegedly motivated by Norteno gang leaders, Detective ...

Cash was treated immediately and then taken to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital ... The inmate was found unresponsive in his cell on Dec. 17, “hanging from his bed sheet wrapped around ...

Duke Health and Novant Health Inc. have chosen Mebane and a 46-bed community hospital as the potential first fruits of an expansion collaboration whose seeds were planted in March. The systems are ...

Charlie Hopkins was imprisoned in Alcatraz in the 1950s, where he spent three "lonely" years.

On May 9th at approximately 12:30 p.m., an inmate in the Troup County Jail was found hanging from a bed sheet and ...

The Sebastian County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) identified the deputy and lieutenant injured in a stabbing at the detention ...

Rosie O'Donnell recently visited her friend Lyle Menendez in prison, where she says he treated her to a 'phenomenal' speech about 'making the prison more beautiful' and helped her adopt a dog.

Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Chronicle of Higher Education investigate university-run prison health care ...

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a ...

An inmate in the Chippewa County Jail who became sick after reportedly taking illegal drugs has now been charged. The inmate who supplied the drugs also has been charged. Duane P. Lunde, 36, of La ...

An incident report released to the FOX 5 I-Team shows two deputies have been named in an investigation into the beating of a ...