A 33-year-old federal inmate’s death by gunfire has exposed troubling questions about safety protocols and transparency within America’s prison system, leaving his devastated family searching for ...

An inmate at Georgia's Hancock State Prison has died after officials say he was stabbed multiple times with a homemade weapon in the prison yard. Hancock County Coroner Dontrelle Andrews told the ...

LENAWEE COUNTY, Mich. — Starting next week, the Lenawee County Sheriff's Jail will have a new automated inmate information system. According to the sheriff's office, the jail will be going live with ...

'Would Whitey still be alive today if we had that intelligence?' a warden asked. New technology driven by artificial intelligence (AI) is helping prison wardens and sheriffs around the country crack ...

The public have been warned by police not to approach an inmate who has escaped from prison. Liam Wall absconded from a south ...

An inmate died by suicide in a Cyprus prison after allegedly being kept as a slave by other prisoners, prompting scrutiny of ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Two inmates at ...

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A Pennsylvania corrections officer is charged with having sexual relationships with inmates and using the prison's database to steal other inmates' identities, authorities announced on Wednesday. The ...

Sweat "acted like he knew [Mitchell] for years," former inmate says. — -- As both a prison employee and a corrections officer face charges for allegedly helping convicted murderers Richard Matt ...

An inmate died at Macon State Prison last Wednesday amid a violent week for Georgia's prisons, according to a statement from the Georgia Department of Corrections. Inmate Sanchez Jackson died at the ...