Attacks on law-abiding correctional officers by inmates are becoming all-too-routine news items across this region and New York state in recent months. This week’s lockdown at Collins is one more ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted conducting an assessment at the shuttered facility both Thursday ...

Thomas Blomquist was given a three-year deferred sentence for felony mistreatment of prisoners and six-month deferred term for misdemeanor official misconduct.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted conducting an assessment at the shuttered facility both Thursday ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

Brooks wasn’t able to join the “second-chance club,” as his father called it, after corrections officers violently beat him to death two months ago in a Central New York prison. On Thursday, Brooks' ...

Five inmates at the Central Maryland Correctional Facility in Sykesville have been convicted in two separate stabbings at the ...

The US carried out a double state killing on Thursday, with two states executing intellectually disabled death row inmates.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities that will house ICE detainees are the Federal Detention Center, Miami; Federal Detention Center, Philadelphia; Federal Correctional Institution, Atlanta; and ...

Heroin hidden in two Bibles found on a California woman were destined to be delivered to two prisons, the Justice Department ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for other violent offenses.

Yellowstone County is looking for new ways to reduce the strain on their jail capacity. This week, the county’s court system ...