The downward spiral of one inmate, Markus Johnson, shows the larger failures of the nation’s prisons to care for the mentally ...

Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs of East Harlem has used his experience to help people reinvent themselves, including a high-flying ...

Four inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City have been moved into restrictive housing while prison officials investigate another inmate’s death as a homicide. On Sunday, Michael ...

Smith spoke out Monday following the weekend death of a 47-year-old inmate. Sira Jeremain Theus, of Jasper, was arrested April 12 after he was accused of selling methamphetamine to an undercover ...

The Kauai jail and two other facilities in Hawaii have the chairs, which require high levels of force to immobilize inmates ...

"Hereabouts, they call it the island of death, the mystery Island, and for good reason," said windswept BBC reporter Fyfe Robertson as he stood across the sea from the remote and desolate Scottish ...

Four inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City have been moved into restrictive housing while prison officials investigate another inmate’s death as a homicide. On Sunday, Michael Challoner ...

“That’s standard procedure,” for a jail death, he said. The inmate was a male in his forties, but identification is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, Vick said. If you ...

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An accused murderer locked up on Rikers Island beat a correction officer ... According to jail protocol, doors must be locked whether an inmate is inside or outside the cell.

An accused murderer locked up on Rikers Island beat a correction officer ... According to jail protocol, doors must be locked whether an inmate is inside or outside the cell.