A former correction officer has pleaded guilty for his role in what prosecutors call a coverup of the beating death of an ...

Held April 5–8, the NCCHC Spring Conference on Correctional Health Care brought together more than just clinical ...

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 ...

Court records on Friday revealed more details on the help escapees received on the outside, while authorities revealed a ...

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

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 ...

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.

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.

After his best friend and four other of his fellow death row inmates have been put to death in less than a year, a South Carolina inmate ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' parole board has reversed its decision to release a man convicted of a state Highway Patrol ...

Police in Massachusetts are searching for an elderly inmate who escaped from prison Tuesday morning. The inmate, 72-year-old Kevin Michael O’Brien, walked away from the minimum-security ...