The state Department of Correction is lowering the minimum age requirement to become an officer from 21 to 19 in hopes of ...

The DOC agreed to pay the $6,750,000 settlement, of which $1 million goes to attorney fees, and which is still awaiting court ...

The state has agreed to pay nearly $7 million ettle a class-action lawsuit that alleged guards at its Shirley prison engaged ...

Officers hired under the age of 21 won’t be assigned to posts or duties that require a firearm but must be eligible to have a license.

More than 150 inmates at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley alleged they were brutalized by staff in retaliation ...

The Massachusetts Department of Correction agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit related to events that occurred in early ...

Madelyn Linsenmeir’s death gained national attention after her family published an obituary detailing her opioid addiction.

A settlement was reached between the Department of Correction and former and current inmates who filed a lawsuit in ...

Two women are facing charges of assisting 10 inmates escape from a New Orleans jail as five remain on the run, Louisiana State Police said Wednesday.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s prison director was sanctioned by the U.S. for secret dealings with MS-13 leaders.

DELAWARE COUNTY, Mo. — A federal grand jury indicts a Grove man on murder charges in the death of his then-girlfriend’s infant daughter. Jordan Payne, 31, is charged with second-degree murder and ...

Noem did incorrectly say habeas corpus is "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from ...