A hostage situation has ended at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City after an inmate assaulted a correctional officer and took another correctional employee hostage.
Authorities have shut down a controversial prison work camp south of Cairns and launched an investigation into claims by a former inmate that prisoners are living a life of luxury.
Curtis Michael Allgier, 31, is an inmate at Utah State Prison who is infamous for his tattooed covered face -- tattoos that include swastikas and Aryan gang-related words and images.
A Santa Rosa man who was convicted of brutally stabbing his girlfriend and hiding her body in a toy box in their apartment died Friday evening after a suicide attempt at San Quentin State Prison on Aug. 23.
The UK's largest and most high profile women's prison is "extremely difficult to run safely and effectively", with almost six out of 10 inmates feeling unsafe at some point, inspectors said.
Officials said inmate Marcia Powell was kept in an outdoor cage for hours. She didn't survive, and now the Maricopa County Attorney's Office has decided not to prosecute the people who put her there.
A Sharptown man accused of assaulting a law enforcement officer has appealed his conviction, moving the case and evidence that tells a different story to the county's highest trial court.
A federal judge has ruled that inmates have no First Amendment rights to grow a beard, rejecting the claim of an orthodox Jew who claimed prison policy banning facial hair longer than a quarter-inch violated his constitutional rights.
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