Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Special Agents are looking into the death of a Hamblen County Jail inmate, the TBI said.

UTICA, N.Y. -- 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 ...

The Arkansas Board of Corrections unanimously voted Friday to rename the North Central Unit in Calico Rock in honor of outgoing Chairman Benny Magness and to ban externally purchased books, magazines ...

A Piscataway man who works as a New Jersey Department of Corrections officer in the state's prison for sex offenders has been charged with sexually assaulting two inmates. Anthony Nelson, 37, was ...

PHOENIX – A West Valley inmate died Tuesday after the second recent fatal gang-related attack in an Arizona prison, authorities said. Jacob Major, 43, died at a Goodyear hospital after an attack at ...

BUCKEYE, AZ (AZFamily) — An Arizona inmate has died after he was attacked at a West Valley prison last weekend. Major’s death has been ruled a homicide and is being investigated by ADCRR’s Office of ...

An inmate died Tuesday morning at Elayn Hunt Prison in St. Gabriel, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections officials said, marking the seventh death of an inmate at the prison in the ...

TELFAIR COUNTY, Ga. — An inmate at Telfair State Prison was killed after an altercation with other inmates on Saturday, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) said. The GDC said that Preston ...

New York State's Bedford Hills Correctional facility, Illinois' Pontiac Correctional Center and Albion Correctional Facility in New York State are the three U.S. prisons with the highest reported ...

A 50-year-old state prison inmate in Yuma died Dec. 11 after he was apparently attacked by fellow inmates, state corrections officials say. The death of Leon Indian, who was in prison serving a ...

Elmira, N.Y. — A former New York state corrections officer sent to prison in the fatal beating of an inmate last year at a Central New York state prison has been released from prison. The former ...

At least 13 inmates were found dead Sunday at a southern Ecuadorian prison ravaged by violence in recent months, the country’s prison service SNAI announced on Monday. The bodies were found after an ...