Months after voting against a proposed site for a new prison, the Blair County Commissioners have found another location where the prison could be built.

Attica Correctional Facility, located in Attica, New York, opened in 1931 as a maximum-security prison built to hold some of the state's most challenging inmates. Known for its high-security measures, ...

Inmates who spoke with the IndyStar said they haven't been allowed to file grievance forms about their conditions as summer ...

One member of the team explained, “We created the bridge and the bridge has two pillars.  One is education and the other is employment.  Out of that employment pillar came the idea of social ...

The death of Anthony “Tony” Mitchell, who died of hypothermia and neglect after two weeks inside what federal prosecutors ...

Trinidad and Tobago declared a state of emergency amid alleged assassination and attack plots by a prison-based criminal network. The action, the second in months, follows intelligence reports on ...

CORTLAND COUNTY, N.Y. (WBNG) -- The Cortland County District Attorney announced that Ariela M. Thran has been sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison. Thran was convicted of murder in the ...

After spending a decade as a crime reporter, CNN Hero Debra Des Vignes created the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop, a nonprofit writing program that helps incarcerated people work through trauma ...

Cortlen S. Flax, 37, a former senior corrections officer at South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, was found guilty of simple assault and second-degree official misconduct, the prosecutor’s ...

Todd Chrisley seemingly had his own personal fast food service in federal prison while his wife, Julie Chrisley, survived on basic rations. The reality TV couple were convicted of bank and tax ...

A Lorain County corrections officer who was accused of throwing a handcuffed inmate into a wall, leading to a broken neck two years ago, has been charged.