The state has agreed to pay $295,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a transgender woman who was housed in ...

The trial for a former corrections officer has been postponed to June. Court officials say the trial for Stephen A. Elswick ...

Prosecutors have identified the four men as Timothy Moss, Aaron Halgar, Christopher Velasquez and Victor Hernandez, and ...

The suit, filed by the inmate’s father, alleges negligence, gross negligence, and wrongful death, and demands a jury trial.

Conducting rounds should be done in person, not via video cameras, state inspectors told youth prison managers.

CORALVILLE, Iowa (KCRG) - A prison inmate died in Coralville hospice care Friday after serving more than 42 years behind bars. 68-year-old Richard Winemiller was pronounced dead on March 27 in a ...

An inmate died at an Ionia prison March 27 in what Michigan State Police detectives are investigating as a suspected homicide, officials confirmed. Joshua Ray McGehee, 40, "was found unresponsive in ...

JUST SOUTH OF US -- NEW HAMPSHIRE WAS ALSO NAMED IN A SIMILAR LAWSUIT ALONGSIDE SEVERAL OTHER STATES. THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ANNOUNCING THIS AFTERNOON IT WILL INVESTIGATE MAINE'S ...

A lack of access to housing and long-term care facilities outside the Nebraska prison system has caused some inmates who were eligible for medical parole to die in prison, the Inspector General of ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A new report shows a number of inmates eligible for parole have died in prison instead — in part because they have nowhere else to go. The report from Nebraska’s Inspector General ...

Utica, N.Y. — U.S. Army Spc. Nicholas Mouzon said he kept making the same request to Messiah Nantwi. Please return for a few minutes to your prison dormitory room. It was not a request that Mouzon was ...