Family and friends of a Vancouver entrepreneur are demanding answers after she was unexpectedly detained by U.S. immigration ...

This is not Whetstone's first escape from prison, as he previously escaped from the Sunflower County Jail and attempted to escape Parchman in 1998. The Mississippi Department of Corrections ...

Parker told prison officials that he put the victim’s body on his bed with a blanket on top of him, gathered his belongings and left his cell to room with another inmate in the victim’s cell ...

New York state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is struggling to keep striking officers on the job, as it grapples with the fallout from two high-profile inmate deaths and ...

At the prisons, a life signs monitoring system is being trialled to track inmates’ vital signs remotely, enabling prison officers to respond more quickly to incidents such as falls and abnormal ...

Staff on leave as 22-year-old inmate’s death probed Messiah Nantwi died at the prison in Marcy, outside of Utica, on Saturday. Mid-State is near the Marcy Correctional Facility, where Robert Brooks, a ...

Whetstone was convicted of capital murder in Lee County in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison. He killed Loretta Darlene Steele, 27, in 1983. Whetstone pleaded guilty to the murder after being ...

SOUTH BAY, Fla. (CBS12) — An inmate at the South Bay Correctional Facility with an extensive criminal history has been accused of strangling another inmate to death over drugs. The Florida ...

The judge heard she had boasted to an ex-prison officer that she had performed oral sex on the inmate and the defendant referred to herself as “your queen” when talking to Brownley.

AUBURN, N.Y. — New York state police are investigating the death of an inmate as the state corrections system continues to be roiled by a wildcat strike by prison staff. The agency said Monday ...