A Wisconsin man doing time for trying to kill his mother was convicted Wednesday of strangling his cellmate to death.

A man died in the Jackson County Detention Center. The Star File photo A man has died in custody at the Jackson County Detention Center. Timothy J. Beckmann, 64, was found unresponsive in his ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota’s top law enforcement officer says it doesn’t look like the state’s latest Department of Corrections inmate deaths were from natural causes.

Four Benner Township state prison inmates and three civilians were also charged last week with attempting to smuggle synthetic cannabis compounds and suboxone into that prison. Mason reported for ...

The state of Indiana executed convicted murderer Benjamin Ritchie early Tuesday morning. ‘I am Ashamed’: West Point Professor Resigns in Defiance Whale With No Tail Swimming Off The Coast Of ...

Inmates at a Missouri prison have filed a lawsuit claiming they're suffering from life-threatening extreme heat in their un-air-conditioned cells during the summer. The suit claims that the ...

The Michigan Department of Corrections in 2009 was also working with its counterpart in Pennsylvania to bring hundreds of prisoners from that state to Standish Max to keep it open. Those inmates ...

On Friday, May 16, New Orleans police announced that multiple inmates escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center with “inside” help. Officials warned the public that the unidentified ...

Ten inmates, including four accused of murder, slipped out of a New Orleans jail early Friday morning and managed to stay under the radar for over seven hours. Their escape, now captured on ...

The Kansas Department of Corrections said an independent autopsy will determine the cause of death. It is protocol for all inmate deaths to be investigated by the KDOC and the KBI. Payne was in ...

The effort will end state investments in the aging facility and eliminate safety concerns at the prison for both staff and inmates, Paul Schnell, state corrections commissioner, said during a ...

LANSING, MI — More than 100 Michigan corrections officers gathered Thursday afternoon in Lansing demanding one thing: their pensions. Chanting “pensions now” and holding a variety of signs ...