Although many of them had criminal records, most people who died in custody had not been convicted of the crime they were in ...

Stevenson Charles, 24, Yusuf Minor, 31, and Naod Yohannes, 25, escaped from the DeKalb County Jail in Decatur, Ga., on Monday ...

Hope and growth. Those two words have changed George K. L. Smith’s life and the lives of other formerly incarcerated ...

More than $200,000 will go to the Clark County and Greene County jails, according to Attorney General Dave Yost.

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of 38 current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims male staff ...

The Monday crash involving the inmate transfer van occurred around 8:50 a.m. on the northbound 5 Freeway south of Paxton ...

Without Florida, the national execution rate would be like an average year, with fewer than 30 executions across the country.

The female driver was told repeatedly not to struggle or she would be raped, tortured and killed, according to Florida ...

A current inmate talked with Vivien Leigh about starting a website that sells First Nation items once she is released.

The transfers follow a series of deaths at the prison, which is located south of Baton Rouge. Seven inmates have died ...

Inmates facing violent criminal charges escaped from a Louisiana jail by removing concrete blocks from a degraded part of a ...

At the Southern Maine Women's Reentry Center, a minimum security prison in Windham, inmates have a chance to improve their ...