U.S.-allied forces guarding prisons holding thousands of Islamic State group militants in northeastern Syria said Monday that they had lost control of one of the facilities after fighting broke out ...

A New York prison guard who stood idly by as other guards beat a handcuffed inmate to death should be convicted of manslaughter, prosecutors argued Thursday. Former corrections officer Michael Fisher, ...

An inmate at the York County Prison died in his cell this week in what is being investigated as a suicide. The deceased, 34-year-old Adam Miller, had been held at the facility since January 3 on a ...

The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC. By Kenneth ...

Lawmakers from both parties and chambers of Congress this week introduced legislation that would institute a 35% pay raise for employees at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, in a bid to counter longstanding ...

Netflix’s Unlocked: A Jail Experiment chronicles revolutionary changes to incarceration taking place at select prisons in the U.S. The second season of Unlocked: A Jail Experiment — which premiered ...

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Three inmates were killed in a brawl at a Georgia prison that erupted in the visitation area, according to authorities and an eyewitness account, leaving families demanding answers about safety and ...

Fighting that broke out at a Georgia state prison over the weekend left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 more inmates, the Georgia Department of Corrections said Monday. The ...

Three inmates were reportedly killed and more than a dozen injured in a massive brawl at a Georgia prison. The fight broke out around 1:25 p.m. Sunday at Washington State Prison in Davisboro, and ...