A 33-year-old federal inmate’s death by gunfire has exposed troubling questions about safety protocols and transparency within America’s prison system, leaving his devastated family searching for ...

The murderer was identified as a suspect after his DNA was found “inside of a sneaker, sock and under the victim’s fingernails," the prosecutor's office said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...

For Robert Brooks Jr., the murder of his father last year at the hands of multiple correction officers at Marcy Correctional ...

Utica, N.Y. — A Central New York corrections officer was sentenced in Utica to prison Monday, the first guard who admitted beating an inmate who died last year. Christopher Walrath, 36, was sentenced ...

Sweat "acted like he knew [Mitchell] for years," former inmate says. — -- As both a prison employee and a corrections officer face charges for allegedly helping convicted murderers Richard Matt ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Damon Landor. Landor is a Louisiana man who grew long dreadlocks for religious reasons. In 2020, prison officials forcibly shaved ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Blair County Prison inmate caught late Wednesday afternoon almost three blocks away from the prison is expected to be charged with escape. Blair County District Attorney Pete Weeks ...

Three convicted killers who are serving sentences at Salinas Valley State Prison in Central California are suspected of killing a fellow inmate during an attack Thursday morning. According to the ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Two correctional ...

A former New York state prison guard was found guilty of murder in the death of an inmate beaten while handcuffed, while two other guards were acquitted for their roles in the beating that was caught ...