The DOJ launched a civil rights investigation into conditions at the Fulton County Jail after several inmates had died in a ...

The Cognify project, a provocative idea that proposes a 'bar-less' prison model with inmates rehabilitated through prefabricated memories, sparks a debate on the ethical limits of using AI in ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Justice Department finds that Georgia’s Fulton County fails to adequately protect jail inmates from violence.

Human rights campaigners on Thursday paid tribute to an Iranian activist who killed himself hours after warning he would do ...

A former West Virginia correctional officer has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation in the death of a man who ...

The Alabama Department of Corrections announced Wednesday that the state's newest correctional facility will be named after ...

A grandmother who didn’t show up to work one day was found dead, bound and gagged at the hands of a man who had been released from prison a week earlier, authorities said. Law enforcement conducted a ...

A 55-year-old at North Kern State Prison died Sunday night after being stabbed at the facility in Delano. Nick Vedol Lopez was attacked at 7:42 p.m., according to a report Tuesday from the Kern County ...

The man accused of killing Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley waived his right to a jury trial – a move that came ...

A gang member was so violent at MDC Brooklyn — the notorious federal lockup that houses Sean “Diddy” Combs — that he should get a penalty, not a discount on his sentence for the atrocious conditions ...

For the legionnaires of Price Junior Satterfield American Legion Post 2024, the razor wire around the perimeter might mark ...

A fight among inmates has left at least 15 people dead and 14 injured at Ecuador’s largest prison, authorities said Tuesday. The Litoral Penitentiary in the coastal ...