A judge has sentenced a federal inmate to 51 months in prison for assaulting a corrections officer, U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Special Agent in Charge Carlton Peeples announced Wednesday.

Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said an inmate died at the Reception and Treatment Center in Lincoln.Edward Adams, 83, died on Tuesday.He was serving 85 years to life in prison that ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) — Laquinces D. Davis, 47, an inmate at Evans Correctional Institution, was found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead on Thursday, officials said. Davis ...

A handcuffed inmate whose fatal beating by correctional officers last year sparked outrage died by homicide, according to findings of an autopsy report a lawyer for the man's family shared Wednesday.

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

By Ed Shanahan An autopsy has found that the death of a New York State prison inmate who was handcuffed and shackled while corrections officers attacked him was a homicide, Gov. Kathy Hochul said ...

The New York State Corrections Officers union revealed new information about the status of the investigation into the death of Adam Lafferty, an inmate at Five Points Correctional Facility. Lafferty ...

The death of a shackled inmate at a central New York State prison late last year has been ruled a homicide, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his ...

New Jersey cops have launched a manhunt for a 25-year-old “repetitive compulsive’’ sex offender who broke out of a health department van on his way to a Newark hospital last week.

A “repetitive and compulsive” sex offender who busted loose while being transported to a New Jersey hospital has been nabbed at a Brooklyn homeless shelter, according to reports. Nicholas ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- The death of a Marcy Correctional Facility inmate, who was beaten by correctional staff in December, has been ruled a homicide by the Onondaga County Medical Examiner's office. The ...