Nearly one in five adult prisons in England and Wales have had serious concerns raised about their performance, the highest number since the current system of inspections began. Some 22 jails – 18.5% ...

Staff failed to check up on an inmate regularly before he took his own life and filled in observation reports retrospectively ...

A coroner has raised multiple concerns after a restrained prisoner died, including that there had been “no discussion” among healthcare and prison leaders on how to prevent similar incidents. Azroy ...

Jevon Winfrey, a 23-year-old corrections officer, was arrested and fired after an investigation revealed he was smuggling ...

Kannur Central Prison escape exposes flaws in Kerala's prison system, prompting calls for reforms and better security ...

HOUSTON — A former Indiana corrections officer accused of being a serial rapist is expected to appear in a Harris County courtroom Thursday morning, as investigators continue to uncover a disturbing ...

A Northern Irish prison officer won a race and religious discrimination case after his boss harassed him over familial links to the IRA.

A judge sentenced Nylesia Mullins to30 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter July 30 after she stabbed a man 73 times ...

A Wareham man must pay $132,500 in restitution to children whose images were found among 66,000 sexual abuse materials stored on his laptop, phone, and external storage devices, federal prosecutors ...

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

A former corrections officer from Ocala has been sentenced to three years in prison for accepting $44,000 in bribes to ...

Six survivors of alleged sexual abuse at New Jersey juvenile detention facilities spoke out at a news conference.