With the impeding retirement of Marion County Sheriff's Maj. Clint Bowen as head of the jail, Sheriff Billy Woods has selected Charles McIntosh as the new leader of the facility. Bowen, elevated to ...

Local and Florida state officials are still searching for two inmates who escaped the Taylor County Jail earlier this week, ...

Marco Rubio would be his choice to serve as the next secretary of state, speculation swirled as to whom Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would appoint to fill the Senate vacancy, assuming that Rubio is ...

The Marshall Project examines new restrictions on gender-affirming care in prisons, from confiscating undergarments to ...

He also invited many former employees and family members of incarcerated people to speak during House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee meetings last year. During the last legislative session ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is under fire once again ... a culture of fear exists within the department, and inmates’ family members say it’s hard to get answers from the department.

PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Department of Corrections has, at least temporarily, suspended its practice of opening and reading privileged mail to inmates, including their correspondence with ...

This pilot vocational training program meets the built-in demand for prison tattoos in a safe, hygienic, and supervised environment, creates new opportunities for incarcerated individuals to perform ...

According to the report, the jail has four times as many assaults as the Miami-Dade jail even though the south Florida jail has four times as many inmates. It also said a private company that ...

COLUMBIA, S,C. — Federal investigators found in a scathing report this week that a large jail in South Carolina vastly underreports the violence occurring behind its walls and lets dozens of ...