Unveiled earlier this week, the Senate’s version of the state budget includes $409 million to build a new 300-bed mental ...

GLENNVILLE, Ga. (WTOC) - One inmate is dead following an altercation at Smith State Prison, Georgia Department of Corrections officials have confirmed to WTOC. Officials say Nicholas Shafer, who was ...

The admonition came at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Macon on Tuesday. The U.S. District Courthouse in Macon. The district court judge for the area, Judge Tilman E. “Tripp” Self III, summoned ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - State prisons in the United States became more violent and nearly 50% deadlier over the past five years as authorities struggled to keep enough guards on the job, ...

THOSE ANNOYING JURY DUTY SCAM CALLS THAT WE ALL GET WERE RECENTLY LINKED, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, TO PRISONS AND GANGS. A JOINT INVESTIGATION BETWEEN STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES FOUND INMATES IN A GEORGIA ...

A 27-year-old Coastal State Prison corrections officer was arrested for allegedly giving inmates prohibited items. Michael Cole was arrested by the Georgia Department of Corrections’ Criminal ...

The race to fill a state Senate seat in Georgia is headed to a runoff, Decision Desk HQ has projected. Democrat Lemario Brown and Republican Steven McNeel will head to a Feb. 17 runoff after neither ...

Jimmy Trammell was killed in a prison riot just three days before his scheduled release after ten years. A gang-related sidewalk fight left three inmates dead, 13 hospitalized, and forced an emergency ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. — Two days after a deadly riot at Washington State Prison left three men dead and more than a dozen injured, two former Georgia inmates say the violence was not an isolated ...

Fighting that broke out at a Georgia state prison over the weekend left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 more inmates, the Georgia Department of Corrections said Monday. The ...

Three inmates were reportedly killed and more than a dozen injured in a massive brawl at a Georgia prison. The fight broke out around 1:25 p.m. Sunday at Washington State Prison in Davisboro, and ...

An inmate in a Solano County state prison is suspected of killing another incarcerated man, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Tuesday. On Jan. 4 just before 7:30 p.m., a ...