The lockdown was for “routine operational procedures,” said Lindsey Hess, public information officer with the Illinois Department of Corrections. “It’s something that we do occasionally ...

An inmate at the Virginia Correctional Center for Women in Goochland was killed Wednesday afternoon when a piece of equipment fell on her. Larry Traylor, spokesman for the Virginia Department of ...

Attorney General William Barr is reportedly demanding updates every three hours on how Jeffrey Epstein managed to hang himself in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. “We are now learning of ...

RICHMOND -- Virginia State Police are investigating the suspicious death of a 33-year-old inmate of the Greensville Correctional Center, the Virginia Department of Corrections said today.

The Virginia Department of Corrections is closing its oldest prison, the James River Correctional Center, on April 1 to cut costs. The 450 inmates at the Goochland County facility, which opened in ...

The four men who escaped from Delaney Hall in Newark on Thursday used mattresses and bed sheets to help make their escape, officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Authorities said the ...

Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate Jabari Lewis pleaded guilty on June 13 to the capital murder of TDCJ Correctional ...