Inmate

An inmate serving life in an Oklahoma prison for murdering an eight-year-old was found dead in his cell Friday, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections said.

Avril Richardson has been charged with second-degree sexual assault for her sexual relationship with an inmate at Northern State Prison.

A transgender inmate is suing Indiana’s prison system for denying his requests to undergo hormone therapy.

A female prison worker has been caught having sex with an inmate at a New York state prison where a prison employee helped two high-profile murderers escape two years ago, authorities said.

The family of an inmate who died in Milwaukee County Jail reportedly named Sheriff David Clarke and Milwaukee County as defendants in a civil rights lawsuit filed Monday.

A Bexar County, Texas, inmate has been found dead in his jail cell. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of the inmate in the Bexar County Adult Detention Center.

Activist immigration groups are firing racial profiling allegations against Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell.

$100,000. That’s the prison’s estimated cost of the sex change operation California inmate Michelle-Lael Norsworthy demanded and was scheduled to receive in July before a Thursday court order delayed the first ever prison-paid procedure of its kind in California. But even if he’s released on parole, the taxpayers could still have the privilege of picking up the tab under Medi-Cal, says one bay area legal director.

On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco ruled that California’s corrections department must pay for an inmate’s sex change surgery, establishing a new precedent as no operation for an inmate has ever been ordered in the state.