As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to help contain the blazes, the department confirmed to CBS News.

at the male-only state prison California State Prison, Sacramento in Folsom. Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] An inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento died Wednesday after two ...

An inmate was stabbed and killed inside High Desert State Prison, Nevada’s maximum-security facility northwest of Las Vegas. On Jan. 5, Brandon Hanson was pronounced dead at the prison.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Tennessee Department of Correction is thanking two country music superstars for recently performing in front of inmates at a maximum security prison. Jelly Roll and ...

Henrietta, N.Y. — The family of an inmate who died after corrections officers violently beat him last month in a Central New York prison has filed a lawsuit claiming state officials oversee a ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the release of 52 inmates and commuted the sentences of six death row prisoners to life imprisonment as part of ongoing justice reforms in ...

Male inmates who were convicted of violent crimes yet were placed in a women's prison based on their gender identity – and then committed sexual offenses – could get access to those incarcerated women ...

Parents of an inmate were arrested and charged with sneaking in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of contraband into a Virginia prison. DON EMMERT/AFP Betty Jo Hoyer, of Chesapeake ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WRIC) — An inmate’s parents and a former corrections officer have been charged in connection to a large-scale drug operation at Indian Creek Correctional Center in Chesapeake.

A former prison guard was convicted Tuesday of 64 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual battery on nine female prisoners at California’s state prison in Chowchilla. Gregory Rodriguez, 56, sat with ...