During a Sep. 24 hearing, Jimmy Robinson — an attorney representing the city — abruptly announced that Burks had lost her ...

YORK, Pa. — York County Coroner Pamela Gay on Tuesday announced the death of an inmate at York County Prison. Juan Gualberto Ortiz-Ortiz, 64, of York, was found unresponsive in his cell early Sunday ...

When wildfires rage in California, incarcerated people are often on the front lines fighting the flames. TED Fellow Royal Ramey was one of them. He shares the story of how doing public service in ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Monday that the state would close a Jessup prison by next summer due to “substantial capital costs” required to rehabilitate the ailing facility. The cost of repairs at ...

Sen. Tom Cotton and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr are calling on lawmakers to pass a bill that would allow state and federal correctional facilities to use use targeted cellphone jamming equipment. AP ...

CUMBERLAND, Md. — An inmate was found dead after being in a shared cell at a state prison in western Maryland over the weekend. Billy Sorrow, 50, died just before 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the North ...

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr (at lectern) with Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (far right), U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (second from left) and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Credit: Brian Chilson Cotton has ...

Richard Davis, a man incarcerated at Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield, died Saturday morning, the Vermont Department of Corrections announced. Davis, 78, of Orleans, was found ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California’s largest ICE detention center, a former prison in the Mojave Desert, faces complaints of poor ...

Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the ...

A Fort Hood sergeant convicted in April of nearly 30 crimes — including rape, kidnapping, burglary and robbery — died in his prison cell on Friday. Sgt. Greville Clarke, 32, who was sentenced to 112 ...