Earlier this spring, violence broke out in the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina, resulting in seven deaths and many injuries. Incarcerated leaders in the South Carolina prison system ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Monroe County is making progress in addressing staffing shortages at its jail and courts. The county is currently down about 27 deputies, a significant improvement from a previous ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A California inmate has died in solitary confinement amid a system-wide hunger strike protesting living conditions in those cells, prison activists announced. Prison officials said ...

New York’s total bill to post the National Guard in prisons — a response to last year’s corrections officers strike — is set to swell past $1 billion, officials said. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed ...

Inmates at Salinas Valley State Prison have declared a hunger strike, effective Friday, to protest what they claim are unlawful practices by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ...