Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Stanley Richards as the new commissioner of the city’s Department of Correction on Saturday. Richards will become the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city ...

The Woodland Park Zoo announced its gorilla, Jamani, gave birth. BABY GORILLA, Y’ALL!!! The precious bundle of best news all ...

The deaths, of a 40-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman, bring to four the number of fatalities at Rikers Island this year.

Detectives say a Miami man kept cashing in on his missing mother's government benefits, even as authorities continued to ...

A lawsuit against the Alaska Department of Corrections on behalf of a 31-year-old Wasilla man who died by suicide in a Palmer jail in 2022 has ended with the state offering to pay the family $500,000, ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections' Second Chance program connects inmates nearing the end of their sentences with job training, education, and support resources — and it's producing results. Trump ...

A Washington appeals court has revived a lawsuit that challenged the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) for punishing inmates after “unreliable” drug testing. The case, brought by ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A confrontation between an inmate and corrections officers at a Washington state women's prison prompted policy changes after investigators found officers violated protocol during the ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) – The Pennsylvania Attorney General has charged two SCI corrections officers and a former inmate with trafficking drugs into SCI Fayette. Corrections officers Beau Angelo, 37, ...

A CORRECTIONS OFFICER WHO DIED AFTER AN INMATE ATTACK IN GRAYSON COUNTY, VIRGINIA, LAST YEAR, IS RECEIVING A NATIONAL HONOR. JEREMY HALL’S NAME NOW APPEARS ON THE NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - After more than four years at the helm of the Alabama Department of Corrections, Commissioner John Hamm is officially retiring, Gov. Kay Ivey announced Tuesday. Hamm, who ...

WINDHAM, Maine — An inmate who stabbed a man in 2018 died at the Maine Department of Corrections Center on Monday. Sonja Dupray, 46, received medical attention when she died at around 3:45 p.m., ...