The announcement at a Texas Commission on Jail Standards meeting in Austin on Thursday morning was met with applause from the ...

Rep. Jennifer Decker, R-Waddy and Sen. Brandon Storm, R-London, told the Interim Joint Committee of Judiciary they plan to ...

Orange County DA Todd Spitzer said 12 mentally ill men facing criminal charges could be released if county staff cannot find ...

The Massachusetts Department of Correction announced it has hired an independent expert to review a half dozen suicides or ...

Orange County was given a two-week extension to find beds for two mentally ill inmates accused of violent crimes.

Inmates released from SCI Waymart have a lower recidivism rate than average in PA. The prison recently celebrated those ...

State prosecutors alleged the former corrections officer engaged in multiple sexual acts with several prisoners while working ...

A non-profit organisation, the Harvesters Africa Empowerment Foundation, has launched its Back-to-School Initiative to ...

Two years after the IGNITE program was introduced to the Gem State at the Bonneville County Jail in Idaho Falls, the Bingham ...

When a fundraiser goal fell just shy, three inmates refused to let their elderly friends down. Instead, they rallied their ...

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections publicly admitted on Friday to mistakenly sharing private health information of ...