A case involving charges against four prison guards at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley was heard in Worcester ...

Prisoners are allowed to file complaints about mistreatment — but doing so often comes with retaliation. That's according to ...

Authorities have secured the Bertie-Martin Regional Jail after inmates allegedly overpowered guards.

A bombshell investigation found that guards at a Mississippi jail have been using inmates as enforcers, encouraging them to help carry out violent assaults against fellow prisoners. The investigation, ...

Inmates overpowered correctional staff and took over parts of a jail in eastern North Carolina early Monday, but the siege ended hours later when law enforcement officers entered the facility and ...

Three guards and 88 inmates were inside the Bertie-Martin Regional Detention Center in Windsor when the takeover began ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guards at Southeast State Correctional Complex, a Kentucky state prison in Floyd County, abused their authority by planting a ...

A former lieutenant at Tennessee's largest prison said he found the decomposing body of an inmate whom guards had counted as alive as many as 18 times.

Nearly 17 years since the first inmates arrived at Guantanamo Bay, the hastily constructed temporary detention center has morphed into a maximum-security prison that could exist for decades to come.