A corrections officer in South Jersey who ruptured an inmate's ear in an assault is to serve the next five years in state prison.

A former corrections officer at the Huron Valley women's prison in Ypsilanti allegedly had sex with inmates, according to the Michigan attorney general.

Natasha Beneke has been left with scars after a prisoner in the midst of drug psychosis smashed her into a wall and ...

Long before it became an ICE detention center, the Miami Correctional Facility was constantly beset by violence fueled largely by gangs and drugs.

A correctional officer with Hardeman County Correctional Facility has been released from the hospital after being assaulted ...

Dale Franquet Jr., his family and more than a dozen federal prison guards watched Tuesday in U.S. Middle District Court as ...

Prison guards who roughly handled a one-legged inmate who had just had a seizure suspected he had taken illicit drugs, an ...

Three inmates were killed and two correctional officers injured in a gang-related stabbing incident at Pollsmoor Prison, as revealed by the National Commissioner of Correctional Services, Makgothi ...

National Commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale reveals details of a violent gang-related stabbing at Pollsmoor Prison, resulting ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) has one of the highest recidivism rates in the nation. That’s why its decision to close the Quehanna Boot Camp last month, the state prison with the ...

A death in custody inquest has heard an inmate was swinging his limbs about and screaming as officers tried to calm him after ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is now facing two wrongful death lawsuits after women were ...