The Sacramento County Main Jail was on lockdown after an inmate died following a fight inside of his cell, the sheriff's office told KCRA 3.

The 32-year-old suspect is serving a life sentence for a 2015 murder plus 51 years for attempted murder and robbery.

Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, over 20 percent of the world's prisoners. Of those, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary ...

The Guardian recently detailed how the program is working at Corcoran State Prison, where incarcerated people are plucked from 6ft by 11ft cells — where some had been for weeks — and chained ...

Wellington Correctional Centre is a maximum-security prison with a mix of male and female prisoners, living separately. It opened in 2007. Like older prisons, entry is via a labyrinth of walls and ...

As the proposed closure of Rockview state ... Prison Society said Rockview is in “serious disrepair.” The nonprofit’s prison monitoring director told the CDT many cells in two particular ...

Charles Manson is dead, and yet we’re still talking about him. The cult leader and wannabe musician died in 2017 in a ...