Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a 32-year-old inmate found unresponsive at the North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland.

Laron Lumpkin is one of more than 150 people who died in prison in Tennessee this fiscal year. Tennessee prisons were twice ...

A former prison guard in Oneida County was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Friday for his involvement in the death of inmate and Greece native Robert Brooks.

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, releasing video ...

After calls for prison reform after the deaths of Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi, Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed an omnibus ...

An inmate died at a South Carolina prison Tuesday, and his death is being investigated as a suspected homicide, according to the the state Department of Corrections. Idris Wasim Ballard-Gallardo, 23, ...

Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a state prison inmate who, last year, was accused of stabbing a correctional officer at a Hagerstown-area prison. State police, in a Sept. 29 news ...

For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for the first time, that hundreds of people died in state prisons between 2018 ...

A man sentenced to death for the 1980 rape and murder of a Seal Beach woman died in prison on Monday, Dec. 22 at the age of ...

A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison.

For years, the public had no way to know just how many people died in Missouri’s prisons, a Marshall Project investigation found, because the state Department of Corrections wasn’t counting. “Deaths ...