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 ...

Sheqweetta Vaughan, 32, was pronounced dead at Lee Arrendale State Prison on July 9, when it was 90 degrees in her cellblock.

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 ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) says they are currently investigating the death of an inmate at James Crabtree ...

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.

Officials at the Shasta County Jail announced that an inmate died while in custody at the Redding facility on Sunday. Jail staff were conducting routine welfare checks when they discovered an ...

The death of an in-custody inmate on Sunday is being investigated by the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit. A recent grand jury report noted five in-custody deaths occurred over a ...

A Cumberland state prison inmate's death is under investigation, according to Maryland State Police.State police said North Branch Correctional Institution officials called for investigators on ...

The in-custody death of an inmate at the Englewood Federal Correctional Institution on Wednesday is under investigation, according to prison officials. Mauritzio Marco Thornwall, 29, was found ...