It was November 2023, in a staff break room at South Idaho Correctional Institution, when prison guard Blas Covarrubias ...
The U.S. sent hundreds of Venezuelan men to a Salvadoran mega-prison. Two of those men describe beatings that occurred during ...
A judge ruled Friday that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions, after a coalition of news ...
UTICA, N.Y. — A New York prison guard accused of failing to intervene as fellow officers beat an inmate to death pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment Friday after jurors deliberating over a more ...
A prosecutor has told a jury that a prison guard should be convicted of manslaughter for failing to intervene in the brutal beating of an inmate by other guards UTICA, N.Y. -- A New York prison guard ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Fighting that broke out at a Georgia state prison over the weekend left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 more inmates, the Georgia Department of Corrections ...
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Jail and Prison Oversight Omnibus Bill Friday, which seeks to reform prisons across the state. The reforms in the bill include more cameras in prisons, ...
With the recent purchase of the former Wayne Correctional Center in Goldsboro, Kerwin Pittman is laying claim to an unusual title — he says he’s the first formerly incarcerated person in the U.S. to ...
CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) – A jail in Ohio is facing scrutiny from lawmakers who claim the facility violates basic standards for inmate housing, conditions and meals, including what the sheriff ...