In a cost-cutting move, the Virginia Department of Corrections is closing the state's oldest prison. Department spokesman Larry Traylor said the 450-inmate James River Correctional Center ...

The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is working to add as many as 300 additional beds to its overburdened prison ...

18 shot, 4 fatally, in Chicago drive-by outside restaurant and lounge A violence interrupter who was at the scene says the victims were shot as they left an event hosted by a local rapper.

The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) announced last week that expanded video visitation was implemented at the Patrick Henry Correctional Unit in Ridgeway.

An inmate of Virginia Beach Correctional Center died by suicide Wednesday evening, according to a sheriff’s office news release. Michael Margulies, 49, was found unresponsive in a routine ...

An inmate of Virginia Beach Correctional Center died by suicide Wednesday evening.

Chicago firms Honore Properties and Peerless Development plan to convert a vacant River North office building at 50 E. Superior St. into about 90 apartments.

Police radio dispatches indicated that the victim was shot in the face and multiple times throughout his body.

Man critically wounded in River North shooting Officers responded to a person shot in the 300 block of West Ontario Street and found a 39-year-old man shot multiple times.

BIG STONE GAP, Va. (WJHL) — Two correctional officers hospitalized after a reported gang stabbing at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap were released on Thursday. “Our entire agency … ...

Three corrections officers at Wallens Ridge State Prison were stabbed by inmates in a “premeditated” attack Friday.

MS-13 gang members from El Salvador who "never should have been in this country" seriously injured several corrections officers in Virginia, state officials said.