Richards, who was in and out of Rikers as a youth before going on to lead a nonprofit dedicated to prisoner reentry, takes ...

Stanley Richards is taking over as correction commissioner at an inflection point for the city’s jails. Mayor Zohran Mamdani ...

Louisiana authorities say they have captured all eight inmates who escaped from a jail. The inmates were reported missing ...

2 inmates walked away from their job post in Idaho. They’ve since been captured; the state prison shares routine in light of recent incidents.

The walkaways happened on consecutive days — one in Boise on Jan. 25 and another in Lewiston on Jan. 26.

The Idaho Department of Correction is actively searching for David R. Johnson, a 42-year-old inmate who walked away from his ...

This diminished buffer has meant department bills that would have been paid from these funds were now coming from the general ...

County jail inmates across the region are suffering from preventable circumstances due to a lack of uniform health care standards and resources. Several have died before ever even stepping foot into a ...

Senate Bill 11 was introduced as lethal injection drugs have become more expensive and hard to get, leading some states to ...

Three inmates—including one who was being held on a murder charge—have escaped from DeKalb County Jail, just east of Atlanta, authorities said. The breakout happened early Monday morning at the DeKalb ...