Seven women filed federal lawsuits against correctional officers and internal investigators at Logan Correctional Center. Elizabeth Payne, who represents the women, called the pattern of sexual abuse ...

This issue means that the department does not know what percentage of former inmates have committed new crimes after their ...

A guard at the Pinal County jail was seriously injured by two inmates on Saturday, in what officials are calling a planned attack. The corrections officer suffered a broken nose and ankle, after he ...

A prison escape is affording a we-told-you-so opportunity for union workers at the East Moline Correctional Center, who have been predicting dark days ahead for the burgeoning prison population.

UPDATE (4:25 p.m.) — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) said authorities captured an inmate who they said unlawfully walked away from Clara Waters Community Corrections Center in Oklahoma ...

PORTLAND, Maine (WGME) -- Officials say an inmate died at the Cumberland County Jail on Friday morning. Officials say a corrections officer found an unresponsive inmate in their cell around 9:50 a.m.

An Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) adult in custody, James William Parrott, died the morning of August 20, 2025, the agency reports. Parrott was incarcerated at Two Rivers Correctional ...

SOMERSET, Pa. – A former SCI-Somerset inmate was sentenced to death in Somerset County court Wednesday for killing Sgt. Mark Baserman. Paul J. Kendrick made no statement in court before Senior Judge ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting. A ...

A former corrections officer at SCI Forest State Penitentiary has been arrested after authorities said she engaged in sexual contact with multiple inmates and using a prison computer to steal the ...

Omar Marlow, 24, was discovered unresponsive in his cell on Saturday, Aug. 2, Superintendent Lindsy Kendall said in the release. Prison staff began life-saving measures until medical personnel arrived ...