Nearly six dozen correctional officers tried to get convicted killer Brian Dorsey saved from being executed — praising his “exemplary behavior” as a “model prisoner.” Dorsey was killed with a ...

Women report giving sexual favors to officers in exchange for basic necessities. Casey Hodge stepped from the prison van, trembling under the weight of her thick handcuffs and leg shackles. The slight ...

EXCLUSIVE - Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a bill that would provide further justice to law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. Cruz is pushing a new law that would give ...

James Ogletree, 30, was sentenced to 46 years to life in prison for the death of Marquise Weatherington, according to the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office. A jury previously convicted Ogletree of ...

FRESNO, California (KWTX) - A judge this week sentenced Tina Gonzalez, 27, a former correctional officer with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, to seven months in jail and two years probation after ...

SEATTLE — Washington correctional facilities will no longer place people in custody in solitary confinement as a punishment — after state officials determined it is not effective. The state Department ...

Northern Correctional Institution, in Somers, will close by July 1. Credit: Kelan Lyons / CT Mirror The population at Northern Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in Somers, has ...

A corrections officer at a men's state prison in New Jersey has been arrested for allegedly assaulting and physically punishing inmates, including using a tactic described as the "fence treatment," ...

TRENTON – New Jersey is piling up as many legal wins as losses over how its prison system reacted when frightened South Jersey inmates “rioted” and briefly seized a COVID-19 quarantine unit at the ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington State Department of Corrections is no longer using solitary confinement as a punishment in state facilities. Over the course of a year, DOC reviewed data on ...