Caged in a cell, Jerad Traylor struggled to breathe and cried out for help, pleading that he felt like he was dying. And it turned out his feelings of despair were exactly right. Four days after his ...

A former Bastrop correctional officer pleaded guilty to one count of bribery. He is accused of smuggling prohibited items ...

At least a dozen others were hospitalized after violence erupted at Washington State Prison in Davisboro, officials said. The ...

Is Al Sharpton in jail or was he arrested? Here's what's going on as Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro is held at MDC ...

Two women made allegations of sexual abuse, including being forced to engage in oral sex, groping and offers of clean water ...

Court documents say Waldemar Perez received tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from prisoners or others paying on their ...

Steve Dodson, a 20-year veteran of the New Berlin Police Department, faced numerous charges, but the felony count was the most serious.

On Tuesday, a former correctional officer at a federal prison in Bastrop pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for ...

Georgia corrections officials say fighting at a state prison left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 ...

The inspector general determined after an investigation that the men were administered a lethal dose of methadone by a ...