The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

A Justice Department investigation continues into a California women’s prison that came to be called the “rape club,” in connection with what federal officials have characterized as a culture of ...

The Legislature did its job passing changes in the wake of two killings; the governor needs to act with speed to make them ...

The Legislature has responded to the recent killings of two inmates by New York State corrections officers inside prisons ...

After homicides behind bars and strikes by guards, Gov. Kathy Hochul made changes to New York’s budget. That did not satisfy ...

Marcy, N.Y. — State prison officials have replaced the superintendent at a Central New York prison where guards fatally beat ...

The omnibus bill was a response in large part to the highly publicized death of Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old Black man who was beaten on Dec. 9 at the Marcy Correctional Facility upstate in Oneida ...

A new federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against the prison guards accused of brutally beating and killing 22-year-old ...

The family of an inmate who died after being beaten at Mid-State Correctional Facility, in March, filed a federal lawsuit ...

A New York City law firm has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the estate of Messian Nantwi, the 22-year-old Mid-State ...

The New York State Legislature passed a package of prison reforms on the last day of the legislative session, sending the ...

Advocates say the governor and correction officials are exploiting a staffing crisis to bypass protections passed by a supermajority in 2021.