New York State Police has arrested a Utica man following an incident that resulted in assault and extensive property damage ...

Corrections officials discovered a water leak Friday morning in the supply system for the Montana State Prison. The search ...

Two Birmingham men, one who is on Alabama’s Death Row, have been indicted for allegedly conspiring to kill a state prison officer. A Jefferson County grand jury indicted Demarcus TyQuan Chandler, 27, ...

Three water leaks identified at Montana State Prison as officials work to end crisis that left 1,600 inmates without ...

The United States executed two death row inmates Thursday evening, September 25—one in Alabama and one in Texas—as the number of state-sanctioned killings continues to rise. The executions of Geoffrey ...

Arkansas legislative leaders pressed state corrections officials Tuesday to acknowledge that a May prison escape resulted from systemic failures rather than solely the actions of two employees.

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Two inmates at California State Prison Solano are under investigation after an inmate died following a prison yard attack Wednesday morning. According to the California Department of Corrections and ...

A Cumberland state prison inmate's death is under investigation, according to Maryland State Police.State police said North Branch Correctional Institution officials called for investigators on ...

Maryland plans to close the aging Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup by June 2026 due to facility degradation. Inmates from the Jessup prison could be transferred to other facilities, ...

Plans to close an aging Jessup, Maryland, state prison next year include transferring inmates to at least two Hagerstown-area prisons and possibly all three, though details are not final, according to ...