A prosecutor told a jury that three former upstate New York prison guards on trial in the fatal beating of Black handcuffed ...

A recent state law meant to provide some abuse victims sentencing relief in criminal cases may need tweaking, two of the ...

Matthew Loflin was coughing up blood, struggling to breathe and losing consciousness in his cell while awaiting trial on drug-possession charges in this historic Southern city.

A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital. Fred Singleton was ...

Harvey Hill wouldn’t leave John Finnegan’s front yard. He stood in the pouring rain, laughing at the sky, alarming his former boss' wife. Finnegan dialed 911.

Jesse Wampler is now at least the fifth inmate death in the Leon County Detention Facility this year, and the ninth death in the last two years.

Mark Mason was found hanged in his cell at HMP Durham the day after his cellmate was released from prison - and an ...

A 37-year-old inmate in the Nebraska Department of Corrections died Friday at a Lincoln hospital of an undetermined cause.

San Diego County has been under intense scrutiny for years over its unusually high number of in-custody deaths.

The lawsuit says Corrections Officer Brandon Anderson knew 57-year-old Robert Slaybaugh was extremely intoxicated and a ...

An inmate died after a fire started inside his prison cell, and now two guards are facing charges, Texas officials say. The ...