The Tennessee Department of Correction has settled a five-year-old lawsuit that alleged the state’s treatment of deaf inmates violated federal law. (Photo: Getty Images.) 37,094 people played ...

An inmate who escaped from a Los Angeles facility was apprehended by authorities Saturday night. Delina Phillips, 27, was serving her sentence at the Female Community Reentry Program facility ...

A proposed law would make Connecticut's Department of Correction investigate for a second time using body scanners to reduce ...

Two inmates at the Department of Corrections face new charges after another man was attacked at the prison and sent to the hospital, according to a magistrate’s complaint filed in Superior Court.

A federal district judge in Indiana has once again ordered the state Department of Correction (IDOC) to arrange a sex reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate convicted of reckless homicide ...

Authorities are working to located an inmate who escaped the Alex City Community-Based Facility/Community Work Center Tuesday ...

Brenna Beauregard, 26, is accused of breaching a court order that prohibits communication with her alleged victim.

James Denny, 28, appeared before 8th Judicial District Court Chief Judge Susan Blanco at the Larimer County Justice Center in ...

The Department of Correctional Services is investigating the death of a Mangaung prison inmate following an alleged assault ...

The 32-year-old suspect is serving a life sentence for a 2015 murder plus 51 years for attempted murder and robbery.

The Utah Department of Corrections said a total of 140 inmates in the prison's geriatric unit have been quarantined and will be treated, although all the inmates except the one infected individual ...

The boyfriend of Irene Gakwa, a Gillette nursing student missing for three years, is set to be released from prison this ...