It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated ...

A new law will require the Department of Corrections to help state inmates get some form of state identification before they are released. The law, which went into effect in January, requires the ...

A Bakersfield man was sentenced to at least 125 years to life in prison for a shooting at the Vagabond Inn that killed two ...

Among the stops on a tour Wednesday of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls was a group shower, a location which the state Department of Corrections ...

A man was sentenced Tuesday for contacting and engaging in sex acts with a minor he met through the popular online game ...

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Closer contact between incarcerated individuals and the broader community strengthens social bonds, enhances prison safety for ... is outdated and costs the state and taxpayers money due to ...

(KTLA) – Two inmates from Southern California are suspects in a deadly attack on a third inmate at California State Prison (SAC), previously called New Folsom Prison, California Department of ...

Brooks died the next day. His family is now suing more than a dozen guards, the former head of the facility and a state corrections official. They say the prison used excessive force in a system ...

Read more about this story and why we reported it here. The underground art of prison tattoos has gone mainstream at Delaware’s largest lockup. In recent weeks, men imprisoned at James T.

Former Arkansas Rep. Grant Hodges has been appointed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to serve on the state Board of Corrections. Hodges, 34, will replace outgoing board member Tyrone Broomfield ...