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.
Over 7,000 people have died in Venezuelan prisons since the socialist regime seized power in 1999, according to a study published Thursday by the Venezuelan Prison Observatory (OVP).
A California judge overturned the conviction of five men who had marijuana in their prison cells after the state legalized recreational pot.
The First Step Act, if signed into law by President Trump, would reduce the federal prison population by 53,000 inmates, the CBO reveals.
Florida’s entire prison system, comprising of 97,000 inmates, is on lockdown due to unspecified threats of uprisings, Florida Department of Corrections officials confirmed Thursday.
A new video has surfaced that shows how three inmates escaped from a California maximum security prison in January 2016.
A teen who made headlines in 2015 when she led a gang assault at a McDonald’s is now causing terror of a different sort at New York City’s infamous Rikers Island prison.
Indiana prison officials have put forth a proposal that would give prison inmates in the state computer tablets so they can communicate with family and further their education.
A group of 47 inmates in Massachusetts armed with clubs and iron bars started a riot inside one of the units in the state’s maximum security prison for three hours Monday, according to state officials.
“I can think of no other project that would have such a positive impact on our inmates and our country than building this wall,” Bristol County, Massachusetts Sheriff Thomas Hodgson tells the Boston Globe.
Six inmates escaped from an eastern Tennessee jail by ripping a toilet from a concrete wall and climbing out of a hole behind it to freedom.
Police say former jailers Angela Jacobs and Kiera Viger were each having sex with an inmate, Kevin Domerese.
On Wednesday, California Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a ballot initiative for November that would allow prison inmates convicted of nonviolent offenses to accumulate credits that would enable them to be eligible for early release.
Texas taxpayers are now paying for hormone treatment for inmates who are transgender, have Gender Dysphoria Disorder, or have an Intersex condition.
California will soon provide taxpayer-funded genital altering “sex change” surgery for prison inmates, with a new policy coming out this week that includes standards to approve the estimated $100,000 procedure.
On Thursday, California corrections officials announced that prison guards would be issued earplugs and instructed to tiptoe around the cells of the most dangerous convicts in the state so the inmates can sleep peacefully.
California’s Proposition 47 of 2014, The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, which changed some drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, has coincided with a rise in crime in parts of the state.
A unique reunion was held at Alcatraz on Sunday between former prison guards and former inmates to celebrate the 81st anniversary of the infamous federal penitentiary.
Governor Jerry Brown’s policies reducing the number of inmates in the state have not affected the number of firefighters fighting fires.
Five inmates in the San Francisco County Jail are alleging that sheriffs’ deputies forced them to fight each other for the deputies’ amusement, city public defender Jeff Adachi said Thursday.
Low-risk, female inmates at Downtown Los Angeles’s Twin Towers jail design and deliver over 1,000 warm blankets to children who are sick or in foster care each year, just in time for the cold winter.
