Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a 32-year-old inmate found unresponsive at the North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland.

Laron Lumpkin is one of more than 150 people who died in prison in Tennessee this fiscal year. Tennessee prisons were twice ...

Concerns have been raised about a prison's ability to deal with drugs after the death of an inmate from a psychoactive substance. Derrion Adams died on 31 October 2024 and a coroner who looked into ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Jail and Prison Oversight Omnibus Bill Friday, which seeks to reform prisons across the state. The reforms in the bill include more cameras in prisons, releasing video ...

The wind howled outside the courthouse as David Kingsley stood before Judge Robert Bauer and was sentenced to life in prison.

After calls for prison reform after the deaths of Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi, Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed an omnibus ...

For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for the first time, that hundreds of people died in state prisons between 2018 ...

An inmate died at a South Carolina prison Tuesday, and his death is being investigated as a suspected homicide, according to the the state Department of Corrections. Idris Wasim Ballard-Gallardo, 23, ...

A man sentenced to death for the 1980 rape and murder of a Seal Beach woman died in prison on Monday, Dec. 22 at the age of ...

Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a state prison inmate who, last year, was accused of stabbing a correctional officer at a Hagerstown-area prison. State police, in a Sept. 29 news ...

When I met Ralph Marcus in June 2024 at California Medical Facility, he was sitting in his wheelchair in the garden, under the shade of a gazebo. This medium security prison in Vacaville is home to a ...