Attacks on law-abiding correctional officers by inmates are becoming all-too-routine news items across this region and New York state in recent months. This week’s lockdown at Collins is one more ...

While working as a detention officer at the Harris County jail, the 22-year-old was caught on video pushing a handcuffed ...

As her fellow correction officers applauded, Shamika Mitchell, 37, walked out of the hospital after six days spent recovering ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A judge dismissed charges against a former Clark County, Indiana corrections officer accused of giving inmates keys in the county jail. Friday, Clark County Circuit Court ...

All new recruits receive a minimum of 40 hours of training on handling mental health crises, including suicide, overdoses, and other mental breaks.

HAMILTON COUNTY, Ohio — A former corrections officer learned his prison sentence for a sexual battery conviction, according ...

At a joint legislative budget hearing on Thursday, Robert Ricks—the grieving father of a man murdered by corrections staff while in state custody—urged lawmakers to reform New York’s ...

In the wake of further violence in state prisons, North Country lawmakers are again calling for drastic prison reform. “It is ...

Centenarian Loretta Chamberlain spent her special day getting fingerprinted, meeting a K-9 and briefly being locked in a cell ...

Bomana Correctional Service facility mothers are demanding that the law be changed so that violent rapists and those who ...

The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is addressing several major challenges amid ongoing ...