Former prison guard Michael Jefferson of Cherry Hill is scheduled to be sentenced April 7 after pleading guilty to sexually ...

Mary Brucato, 23, died of medical neglect while in the throes of fentanyl withdrawal as jail staff allegedly watched her ...

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been serving a 27-year prison sentence for an attempted coup since November ...

Officer Jovian Motley died at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Wainwright Unit in Lovelady, in what was supposed to be a routine inmate cell extraction.

Pieper Lewis, who was 15 when she killed a man she said repeatedly raped her, is back in jail in Des Moines 18 months after absconding from probation.

A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage has been sentenced to 25 years to life in ...

A 33-year-old Florida woman is facing eight felony charges after state investigators alleged she sexually abused a child and ...

In a major crackdown on prison security breaches, officials have seized 30 mobile phones from Bengaluru's Parappana Agrahara ...

A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and his girlfriend during a home invasion robbery was put to death Thursday evening ...

Spokane County officials say they have found a palatable solution to a deal that turned sour with the former jail medical services provider.

The woman is also suing the federal government, claiming it never should have let a correctional officer alone with her.

A Boston-area man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife, whose body has never been found.