CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (WCMH) – A corrections officer was killed on Christmas morning by an inmate at a facility in Ross County, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction announced Wednesday.

Authorities have released the identity of the inmate who is being accused of attacking and killing an Ohio veteran corrections officer on Christmas Day. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and ...

Marcy, N.Y. — An inmate at a Utica-area state prison died last week after the “use of force” by staff members, officials said. The incident involving the inmate occurred last Monday at the ...

Biden, a practicing Catholic, will meet with Pope Francis, who recently called for prayers for U.S. death row inmates in hopes their sentences will be commuted. Martin Luther King III, who ...

Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds inmates for weeks or months after they were supposed to be released from custody following the completion of their sentences, the U.S. Justice Department said ...

Lawyers for the Florida Department of Corrections, Corrections Secretary ... The lawsuit, which names three Dade Correctional Institution inmates as plaintiffs, alleges violations of the U.S. ...

A former inmate of Auburn Correctional Facility, Taj Williams, pleaded guilty to Assault in the Second Degree in Cayuga County Court on charges stemming from an attack on a corrections officer earlier ...

The suit against the state of Louisiana follows a multiyear investigation into what federal officials say is a pattern of “systemic overdetention” that violates inmates’ rights and costs ...

Ellis County detention officer Isaiah Patrick Bias, 28, was assaulted by an inmate while on the job Monday.(Ellis County Sheriff's Office) Grabbed from behind and choked, Ellis County detention ...

Some words may be mispronounced. State correctional officials should tighten their requirements for restraining unruly jail inmates and improve help for those with mental illness to stem ...