Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitations at many of Arizona's prisons are closed, while other limitations are in place due to an uptick in inmate violence at ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Shortly after the video of the prison beating of Robert Brooks was released, a former state prison inmate reached out to News10NBC Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean to ...

A Washington female inmate is suing corrections officials, alleging a male-born prisoner attacked her under the state's ...

MACON, Ga. — A month after county leaders introduced a new set of reforms for the Bibb County Jail, Georgia senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking the U.S. Department of Justice to ...

Twenty-three inmates at the troubled federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, have been charged with crimes ranging from smuggling weapons in a Doritos bag to the stabbing last month of a man convicted in ...

Ever wonder what makes a prison notorious—and not just tough? The most dangerous prisons in America are feared for a reason, from extreme violence and torture-like solitary confinement to deadly ...

Hearing a plea by an inmate lodged in Bhondsi District Jail, a Gurgaon court underscored that incarceration does not extinguish a prisoner’s fundamental rights.

An inmate at the largest federal prison in the U.S. was stabbed in the eyeball by a fellow prisoner this month, the latest gruesome example of violence in a prison system plagued by chronic unrest, ...

Twenty-three inmates at the troubled federal jail in Brooklyn have been charged with crimes ranging from smuggling weapons in a Doritos bag to the stabbing last month of a man convicted in the killing ...