Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.

Participants plan to perform the comedy “Love’s Labor’s Lost” at San Quentin in May. Currier said the play is a “360-degree ...

The state Department of Corrections confirmed to Montana Free Press Wednesday that Montana State Prison Warden Jim Salmonsen, ...

A woman was killed during a conjugal visit with her husband, a convicted killer, at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, ...

Assemblymember Damon Connolly and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins have announced a bill intended to improve safety at state prisons. Assembly Bill 1140 would require the California ...

Newsom on Monday plans to propose a new parole board process that could clear a path for more prisoners to have their ...

Instead, it’s between state leaders and individual corrections officers. Like the first deal, it agrees to eliminate mandatory 24-hour overtime shifts, screen prison mail with technology to ...

Quintana sent the series of photos to Quinyon’s father, Quentin Mitchell, who was serving an eight-year state prison sentence for drug charges in a crime he still says he did not commit.

FOLSOM – Five inmates from the California State Prison, Sacramento were injured and taken to the hospital on Wednesday morning after officials said a riot involving about 40 inmates broke out in ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Hundreds of prison guards and their supporters rallied at the State Capitol Tuesday morning as their unauthorized strike heads into day 16. Guards have been striking for safer ...

A police investigation is underway after an inmate died Saturday at a New York state prison, where more than a dozen staff members connected to the incident were subsequently placed on ...