CALICO ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Officials scoured Arkansas’ rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

A Springfield man was charged with simple assault after an investigation of an incident at a prison in Vermont.