The Corrections Commissioner’s attempt to allay concerns on new legislation has been met with an icy response from the union, ...

They have been fantastic goodwill ambassadors for the department,” Splawn said. “People love dogs and Luka loves people. They ...

Quickly after an ambush at a Boise hospital last year injured three correctional officers when a prison transport turned ...

The Eastern Ohio Aspire program provides tools to help those in the corrections system meet awaiting challenges following ...

Alabama lawmakers are seeking the ability to borrow an additional $500 million for prison construction after the price of the state’s new mega-prison rose to over $1 billion, complicating plans to ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections has the lowest recidivism rate in the country, but they want to make it even ...

Inside North Carolina prisons, 13 inmates killed themselves last year. Three more died in January. State officials say they ...

According to one mother who spoke with her son who is in the jail, inmates screamed out: "We're going to die back here. There's a fire — it's bad." ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

A new bill, HB 1070, would help correctional officers access the same services as firefighters and law enforcement.

Garza County leaders have invested millions of dollars into the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility, hoping it will bring ...