While the Virginia Department of Corrections maintains its efforts to keep staff and inmates safe, recent allegations of abuse and reports of inmates burning themselves at Red Onion State are at ...

The Virginia Department of Corrections has made drug abuse prevention a priority, spending millions of dollars to help prison inmates recover from addiction. Even so, prisoners at some correctional ...

An inmate at Mount Olive Correctional Center has died, according to the West Virginia Division of Corrections and ...

Police said that around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, investigators contacted MSP about an inmate’s death at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Washington County. Correctional officers told officials ...

South Carolina authorities arrested two former corrections staff members and one former inmate Friday on charges ranging from sexual misconduct to conspiracy. Antoinette Briana Crawley ...

(South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) Randy Gardner, hold the ashes of his brother Ronnie the last death row inmate to be executed by firing squad during a protest outside the execution of ...

The border region between Norfolk and Oxford counties continues to be ground zero for measles in Canada. There have been 91 confirmed cases of measles since the start of the year in the region ...

Mahdi killed Myers, who was also a firefighter and grandfather, during a week of chaos that started out as a vehicle and firearm theft in his native Virginia ... death row inmates who have ...

The Augusta County Sheriff's Office said a probationer who absconded from the Cold Springs Correctional Unit #10 on Wednesday ...

An absconded probationer is now in custody after a search Wednesday afternoon that involved personnel from the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office, Virginia State Police and Virginia Department of ...

PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – The hometown sheriff's department of a missing American college student has named a person of interest in Sudiksha Konanki's disappearance in the Dominican Republic.