A federal jail with a documented history of power outages, staffing shortages and detainee complaints just got two more ...

Thomas Van Hoose had been here before. Nearing the end of his third stint in an Oregon correctional facility on drug charges, he was thinking about what life on the outside would be like yet again.

On January 1, 1958, Johnny Cash walked through the gates of San Quentin State Prison and performed for inmates.

Two Oregon Department of Corrections inmates with Marion County convictions were rereleased Dec. 24 after an Oregon Supreme ...

The ruling led to an unusual flurry of filings late on Christmas Eve when it appeared the state Department of Corrections ...

Thomas Van Hoose had been here before. Nearing the end of his third stint in an Oregon correctional facility on drug charges, he was thinking about what life on the outside would be like yet again.

The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and support for people after release. Thomas Van Hoose had been here before. Nearing ...

A Piscataway man who works as a New Jersey Department of Corrections officer in the state's prison for sex offenders has been charged with sexually assaulting two inmates. Anthony Nelson, 37, was ...

Following years of reports of scandalously substandard care and some high-profile firings of top officials, Oregon Department of Corrections officials say they are now making substantial progress ...

TELFAIR COUNTY, Ga. — An inmate at Telfair State Prison was killed after an altercation with other inmates on Saturday, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) said. The GDC said that Preston ...

New York State's Bedford Hills Correctional facility, Illinois' Pontiac Correctional Center and Albion Correctional Facility in New York State are the three U.S. prisons with the highest reported ...