A Council of State aspirant for the Volta region, Dr. David Kofi Wuaku, has donated essential supplies to the female inmates at the Ho Central Prisons. The items, which included toiletries and ...

Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

A civilian worker at Arizona State Prison in Tucson is suing the state in federal court after she was allegedly beaten and raped by an inmate while working in the prison kitchen. The 23-year-old ...

TYNDALL — A former state prison guard who pleaded guilty to a sexual affair with an inmate has been sentenced to 90 days in the state women’s prison. Cassandra Jelsma was sentenced in Bon ...

Justice Lassiter died by suicide in March 2023, more than two years into a seven-year sentence at Northern State ... women's prison over an alleged blitz of coordinated assaults against inmates ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing to close two state prisons and two community corrections centers in a cost-saving measure that ...

TUCSON, AZ — A civilian kitchen worker is suing the State of Arizona after she was violently sexually assaulted inside the Tucson prison ... offender stabbed and sexually assaulted a female ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Transgenders rights supporters rally outside of the Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in Washington ...

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS ARE INVESTIGATING A POSSIBLE HOMICIDE AT SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON ... when the pair stabbed inmate Steven Lovely during recreational time in the day ...

Justice Department attorney John Robinson said prison officials have “broad discretion” to decide where to place inmates. Moving the women to a men’s prison would jeopardize their safety and ...

If ultimately approved, the prison closures would be the first since 2020, when SCI Retreat near Wilkes-Barre was shut down. There are 24 state prison institutions, including two women’s prisons ...