Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Fresno man already serving time in a Northern California prison is accused of attempting to kill a correctional officer with an ...

A 15th corrections officer has been indicted in connection with a January 2021 incident at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women where inmates were allegedly forcibly removed from cells ...

A correctional officer at the California Medical Facility prison in Vacaville was allegedly attacked by an inmate with an improvised weapon, officials say. The incident happened Wednesday just after ...

The use of dogs to threaten and attack prisoners to facilitate cell extractions has been a well-kept secret, even in the world of corrections. Human Rights Watch has spoken with more than two dozen ...

Two officers sustained puncture wounds and a third officer sustained a hand injury after an inmate armed with a make-shift shank attacked them inside his cell at Five Points Correctional Facility. On ...

A suspended sergeant accused of covering up a coordinated beating of inmates at New Jersey’s women’s prison faces new charges under a superseding indictment, state authorities announced Monday. Sgt.

A Hunterdon County Superior Court judge has dismissed the indictments against 14 guards and supervisors at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in connection with a cell extraction action in ...

A New Jersey grand jury has indicted another corrections officer on charges stemming from alleged attacks on inmates at a women's prison in 2021. Sgt. Matthew Faschan, 35, of Hackettstown, was ...