The Louisiana authorities are still searching for five of the 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center ...

Jails in St. Louis, Cleveland and Jackson, Mississippi, don’t provide direct access to sunlight and fresh air – even when ...

Harvey Weinstein has emerged from his prison cell to bash Gwyneth Paltrow after she accused the disgraced movie mogul of ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was moved to death watch, a two-day period of 24-hour observation, before his planned execution.

A maintenance worker shut off water at the jail, allowing the inmates to remove a toilet and sink fixture from a cell wall, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Just days before 10 men broke out of a New Orleans jail, officials with the sheriff’s office asked ...

An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail was discovered hanging from a vent in his cell Tuesday in what was the second death in the same day at the facility. William C. Cash, 39, was found ...

Sharing a dirty cell with a dozen others, constant sleep deprivation, cells with lights on 24-hours a day; poor hygiene and ...

A cell phone video capturing a fight that appears to be in an Arizona prison was posted on social media. Prison officials declined immediate comment.

Two COs allegedly involved in the death of 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi asked for adjournments after new evidence was submitted ...

A recent class action lawsuit from the MacArthur Justice Center sheds light on how extreme heat creates life-threatening ...

Just in time for the Season 2 finale, BroadwayWorld caught up with Elsbeth showrunner and writer Jonathan Tolins to discuss ...