The lawsuit alleges a corrections officer fired the shot when the inmate was on the ground and “posed no threat.” ...

The incident is now raising alarming questions about the facility’s readiness to handle the most violent criminals in the ...

PARAGOULD, Ark. (KAIT) - With the new prison in Franklin County, there will be more room for prisoners in county jails across ...

A homicide investigation is underway after an inmate was found dead in his cell at Solano State Prison in Vacaville this week ...

Axel Rene Kramer and his co-defendant, a corrections officer, were also involved in a romantic relationship, according to a ...

Member Lee Watson abstained. The state has planned for years to build a correctional facility to address overcrowding. With not enough prison beds, many inmates are being housed at county jails ...

The Alabama Department of Corrections announced Wednesday that the state's newest correctional facility will be named after ...

CHARLESTON, Ark. (KAIT/KARK) – Plans for a new state prison move forward after the Arkansas Board of Corrections approved the purchase of land in Franklin County, despite pushback from residents.

She started looking at old psychological studies exploring human nature and became fascinated by the Stanford Prison ...

Trousdale County with a population of about 12,000 is Tennessee's smallest county by area at 117 square miles. The county seat of Hartsville once had a thriving tobacco market, but the industry had ...

ARKANSAS, USA — The Arkansas Board of Corrections voted to approve the purchase of land for a new state prison on Friday, Nov. 8, despite an uproar from residents against the project.

The Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York held its first-ever film festival recently, with incarcerated men invited ...