An inmate at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano died after he was found in his cell with serious injuries Friday morning, ...

Brian Koehn, a Marine Corps veteran and former warden, is leading a movement to transform the criminal justice system with ...

A former prison guard was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison on Thursday for sexually abusing three inmates at the ...

Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...

Guards doing their routine rounds of the building found Turner, 31, hanging from a part of his cell around 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, said Cheryl Bolton, a prison spokeswoman.

A prisoner accused of beating her cellmate to death at Wisconsin's women's prison almost two years ago pleaded no contest Monday to homicide.

The Kern Valley State Prison is looking into the death of an inmate as a possible homicide on Friday.Staff members observed ...

Two young men who were housed at the Green Hill School juvenile detention center in Chehalis claim they were left to urinate in plastic receptacles in their cells amid overcrowding. The petitioners' ...

The state has paid out nearly $900,000 to settle lawsuits tied to double-bunking deaths in recent years. Nebraska's prisons director says space limitations make double bunking necessary at times.

Kristi Lettie Tyler, 35, was caught with eight grams of the drug in her jacket, charges allege ...