A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a Black women who dialed 911 asking for help.

It was November 2023, in a staff break room at South Idaho Correctional Institution, when prison guard Blas Covarrubias ...

From meals to showers to visitors, this is what life is like on Florida's death row for convicted killer Wade Wilson.

Isabelle Dale was a teenager when she joined the prison service. Within months of starting work as an officer at HMP ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A group of Brazilian women behind bars applied makeup, donned gowns and competed in a singing contest ...

On Tuesday at the January meeting for the Southern Region of the Correctional Leaders Association, Gov. Josh Stein emphasized the importance of addressing shortages of correctional officers across the ...

The family of an ex-prison officer murdered by a former inmate have been praised in the House of Lords for "their dignified and determined" campaign for a law change aimed at deterring revenge attacks ...

A female prison officer who became pregnant with an inmate's baby after starting a relationship with him while he was on overnight release has avoided jail. Sarah Barnett, 33, who worked as a member ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

A female prison officer had 'intimate relationships' with inmates and 'smuggled cannabis and tobacco' into jail, a court heard. Kayleigh Robson, 29, struck up inappropriate romances with prisoners at ...

SUMTER COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) - A South Carolina corrections officer was fired after allegedly trying to smuggle tobacco into a state prison. The South Carolina Department of Corrections said 60-year-old ...

The Rhode Island correctional officers union and Corrections Director Wayne T. Salisbury Jr. are in a deepening conflict over prison operations. The union alleges escalating violence, gang activity, ...