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A Florida teacher resigned this week after she was caught engaging in sexually explicit video chats with her prison inmate boyfriend during school hours while in her office, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department.

A Virginia inmate was honored Tuesday with a Citizen’s Service Award after saving a deputy who was choking on his food.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) helped free 700 convicts in the state’s prison system in the last roughly two years, a new ad from Republican Mark Ronchetti details.

The Portland Freedom Fund bailed numerous inmates out of jail on the condition they would later appear in court, but a recent investigation reportedly found that was not always the case.

Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, a trans woman who sued the government to get sex surgery, is slamming a law letting men live in women’s prisons.

Authorities in Texas are searching for an inmate convicted of capital murder, who they say escaped a bus during a transport Thursday.

Authorities say the Alabama corrections official and the accused murderer she allegedly helped escape prison share a “special relationship.”

A man who identifies as a woman has been convicted of raping a female inmate while being kept in the women’s section of Rikers Island.

Authorities issued a statewide alert for five inmates who escaped from the Pulaski County Law Enforcement Center in Georgia on Friday.

Inmates have “seized near total control over entire units” at New York City’s infamous Rikers Island jail, a report details. Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) has long claimed he will shutter the jail and build prisons in New York City neighborhoods to house inmates.

A newspaper account of a coronavirus-infected illegal alien who was released from a CA prison reveals a threat to public safety and health.

Unidentified gunmen attacked a prison in southwestern Nigeria on Sunday, blowing up the facility’s fence to free 266 inmates, or nearly all of the site’s prisoners, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported Monday.

Inmates are reportedly out of control on Rikers Island due to a staffing shortage that has left them free to stab one another, answer phones, and run along corridors destroying maintenance equipment, according to the New York Post.

Election officials in Alachua County, Florida, are being investigated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for allegedly registering to vote inmates at the county jail for the 2020 presidential election.

DAs from jurisdictions all around California are petitioning to stop a program in the state’s prisons that could release some 76,000 inmates.

Inmates at the downtown St. Louis jail started a riot within the jail Sunday night, breaking windows, setting fires, and throwing debris into the streets, according to a video of the incident.

A hostage situation on Saturday at the Oklahoma County Jail ended when authorities said police shot and killed an inmate who held a correctional officer hostage.

Eleven corrections officers were injured during multiple inmate attacks this past week at Rikers Island jail in New York City.

Inmates in a St. Louis, Missouri, city jail set a small fire and began throwing furniture and other objects from upper story windows on Saturday morning. The inmates are trapped on the floor but are still running free and creating damage, according to local news reports.

President Joe Biden is reinstating an Obama era-policy to phase out the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) contracts with a handful of privately-managed prisons that almost entirely hold foreign nationals convicted of federal crimes.

Authorities in California are searching for six inmates who escaped from the Merced County Jail Saturday by using a homemade rope.

Two former Oklahoma jail workers and their supervisor are accused of cruelty for forcing inmates to listen to “Baby Shark” on repeat.

Six correctional officers were injured during an inmate attack at a California prison and sent to the hospital to be treated for those injuries, officials said.

California officials said almost 18,000 inmates in state prisons are being released because of the coronavirus.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is asking state officials to claw back hundreds of millions of dollars in coronavirus stimulus payments from inmates after the federal tax agency says the payments were sent in error.

Inmates in Los Angeles County, California, are generally not being tested for the Chinese coronavirus before being released from jail, a county official reveals.

A man charged with murdering a 25-year-old woman has been released from a Michigan prison over concerns of the Chinese coronavirus spreading in detention facilities.

Los Angeles County, California, inmates are deliberately infecting themselves with the Chinese coronavirus in the hope of being released from prison, surveillance footage released by Sheriff Alex Villanueva reveals.

Two men accused of raping children are among the nearly 830 Massachusetts inmates that have been freed in the last month over concerns of the Chinese coronavirus crisis spreading in prison facilities.

An accused rapist released from Riker’s Island in New York due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic was arrested for allegedly raping a woman in Brooklyn days later.

HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas state district court judge ordered Harris County to stop the release of inmates as ordered by County Judge Lina Hidalgo (D). Hidalgo ordered the release of hundreds of non-violent offenders from the jail earlier this week.

Ten dogs rescued from kill shelters are making a difference in the lives of inmates at a prison in Vacaville, California.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Friday that will prohibit for-profit prisons and immigration detention centers from operating inside the state. 

Former Vice President Joe Biden said during the third 2020 Democrat presidential primary debate that no “non-violent” convicted criminals should be serving time in prisons across the United States.

Sixteen female inmates have chosen to be baptized as part of a new program at the Blount County Jail in Oneonta, Alabama. 

A sizeable portion of Nevada’s incarcerated population is in the United States illegally, including about 150 who have been convicted of murder, a local investigation finds.