As climate change exacerbates the risks of extreme heat across California, the state’s prison officials plan to embark on a $38 million pilot project to figure out how to keep their prison cells cool.

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Three people — a former correctional officer, a former inmate and the family member of that inmate — have been arrested on charges of running an operation to introduce drugs into over a dozen state ...

CHESHIRE, Conn. (WTNH) — Three staff members at Cheshire Correctional Institution were injured after a prisoner allegedly attacked a correctional officer on Monday morning, according to officials. The ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - A 20-year-old man who attacked a Sedgwick County Jail deputy with scalding hot water earlier this year has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison. Judge Chrystal Krier on ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Dramatic video obtained by WREG appears to show Austin Drummond attacking a fellow inmate while incarcerated in a common area. Drummond is accused of killing a family of four then ...

Missouri lawmakers repealed the Incarceration Reimbursement Act, ending the practice of seizing assets from incarcerated individuals unrelated to their crimes. The repeal, added to a controversial ...

On Aug. 6, LeConna Cobbs got a call that no mother ever wants to receive. “My sister told me she got a call from somebody at High Desert State Prison saying that my son got stabbed,” Cobbs said. Cobbs ...

An inmate at Rikers Island died in his prison cell Saturday morning – marking the ninth reported prisoner death at the troubled New York City jail this year, officials said. Ardit Billa, 29, who was ...

ELOY, Ariz. — An Idaho Department of Correction inmate died Wednesday morning following an assault at the Saguaro Correctional Center. Brian Todd, a spokesperson for the Arizona prison, said ...