A bloodhound picked up the scent shortly after the “ Devil in the Ozarks ” escaped from a lockup in northern Arkansas. The hound didn’t have to go far to begin the hunt — it lives at the ...

Arkansas authorities are looking at whether a job in the prison kitchen played a role in the escape of a convicted former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks.” Grant Hardin, 56, was ...

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

Those changes have meant consequences for local county jails. Erie County, for instance, held only two inmates bound for state prison the week the unsanctioned strikes began in February.

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

Three inmates now are accused of attempted murder for their alleged roles in a 2023 assault on several Nebraska Department of Correctional Services staff at a prison in Lincoln. State Patrol ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...