A murder investigation is underway at High Desert State Prison after an inmate was stabbed to death, the 8 News Now ...

The incident is now raising alarming questions about the facility’s readiness to handle the most violent criminals in the ...

The minister also announced that the recruitment of 13 DSPs, 175 wardens and four matrons in the jails department will be initiated soon.

The family of a man who died while in custody at Stateville Correctional Center during an early summer heat wave sued the ...

A high-security prison is being swarmed by so many drones it is like an 'airport' with inmates burning holes in their Perspex cell windows to smuggle in drugs, a damning report revealed today.

The High Court of Justice of England and Wales has refused an appeal against the rejection of a human rights claim by a life prisoner jailed for planning to detonate explosives on a transatlantic flig ...

Inmate Hawk Urban, 27, was fatally stabbed by his cellmate in High Desert State Prison, sparking a murder probe.

Daniel Khalife has told a court he escaped from prison so he would be kept in a high security unit away from “sex offenders” ...

Teixeira, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in March to six counts of the willful retention and transmission of ...

Trousdale County with a population of about 12,000 is Tennessee's smallest county by area at 117 square miles. The county seat of Hartsville once had a thriving tobacco market, but the industry had ...