Corrections officers and other employees bring in drugs that fuel a multimillion-dollar prison economy, leading to chaos, ...

Prison officials stripped him of the “good conduct time” that would have secured his release just two days later, according to internal reports. Instead, a hearing officer sentenced Alex to “30 days ...

“Death Under Watch” is an ongoing series by MassLive and The Springfield Republican investigating deaths in Massachusetts prisons and jails. Sitting in the quiet, drafty apartment where she lives ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alan Alterisi died in 2018 because state Department of Correction health care failed to diagnose and treat peptic ulcer disease, ...

The daughter of a man who suffered an "inhumane, degrading and undignified death" due to prison errors has settled a High Court legal claim for a five-figure sum. Melanie Kalay took legal action ...

Knife offenders are avoiding jail because courts and prosecutors are failing to apply laws that require them to impose mandatory prison sentences, watchdogs have found.

Damning prison projections uncovered by The Independent reveal the government’s action plan to tackle the scandal of indefinite jail terms will leave hundreds of prisoners to rot. The shocking ...

Katie Kuhnhausen scrolled frantically. Seated in a parked car while her son’s soccer team practiced under the receding spring sun, she scoured the Washington Department of Corrections website for ...

A Washington state woman says the state prison in Walla Walla failed to diagnose her husband's fatal bacterial infection and didn't inform her how sick he was, despite repeated calls and emails. Katie ...