Orlando Mercado, Steven Roberts Jr., and Maton Wilkins — all employed by the New Jersey Department of Corrections — were ...

They may lower your mortality risk—and even counteract the effects of being sedentary.

The state Department of Correction is lowering the minimum age requirement to become an officer from 21 to 19 in hopes of ...

Officers hired under the age of 21 won’t be assigned to posts or duties that require a firearm but must be eligible to have a ...

Most of the complaints are handwritten in ballpoint pen and sent from prisons to federal courts through the U.S. mail. The ...

Nearly half of those fired during the illegal statewide correctional officers strike earlier this year have applied to ...

A settlement was reached between the Department of Correction and former and current inmates who filed a lawsuit in ...

A correctional officer at California Medical Facility in Vacaville was attacked and injured while trying to remove an inmate ...

Gov. Kelly Ayotte said Wednesday that John Scippa, who has a long background in law enforcement, is the right person to lead ...

The commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Corrections stepped down on the same day that a motion was filed accusing her of destroying notes related to an inmate's death, News 9 has learned.

Helen Hanks, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Corrections, resigned. Gov. Kelly Ayotte is naming an interim ...

CDCR probes an attempted homicide of a guard by an inmate using an improvised weapon at California Medical Facility.