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

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

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 ...

A former prison guard in Oneida County was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Friday for his involvement in the death of inmate and Greece native Robert Brooks.

Teresa Henderson’s son, Steven Kidd Jr., died on Sept. 12 inside Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone, Florida. A prison chaplain called on a Saturday to notify the family of his death, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison.

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 ...

An inmate at Beaumont's federal prison was found unresponsive Monday and later died at a local hospital, prompting an ...

For years, the public had no way to know just how many people died in Missouri’s prisons, a Marshall Project investigation found, because the state Department of Corrections wasn’t counting. “Deaths ...