The prison’s sprawling complex essentially functioned as its own community, featuring everything from a classroom and library to a barbershop and recreation facility.

Rockview state prison, Pennsylvania’s second-oldest, has officially ceased operations after 111 years in Centre County. Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration pushed the closure through despite bipartisan ...

GDC confirms four total inmate deaths at facility in February ...

Former Dumont Mayor Andrew LaBruno has been offered a plea agreement of twelve years in state prison for drugging and raping ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants to build a huge, pricey prison to hold the inmates incarcerated under her tough-on-crime ...

Vasilios Pentsas Jr., a 40-year-old Altoona man serving a state prison term for murder, is attempting to revive a federal ...

A Denver judge ruled that the Colorado Department of Corrections has been violating an amendment to the state constitution by ...

An Erie man has been suspended without pay from his job as a corrections officer trainee after being accused of drugging and ...

The South Carolina Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Joel Anderson as director of the state’s Department of Corrections ...

The family of Jennifer Wallace, who died after a heart surgery in November, is among those claiming medical neglect at the state's only women's correctional facility.

The death of an incarcerated man at California State Prison, Sacramento is being investigated as a homicide, with both the ...