A prison officer working on the day an inmate died was suspended following a disciplinary hearing, an inquest heard. Matthew Osborne was found in his cell on the segregation unit at HMP Lowdham Grange ...

During his long stay at the Orleans Parish lockup before he escaped last month, detainee Lenton Vanburen had racked up criminal charges in six cases for jail violations in less than two years, ...

MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A suspicious substance was found in the disciplinary segregation unit at Deer Ridge Correctional Institution east of Madras, prompting the use of Naloxone and a trip to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oregon Department of Corrections has reversed course on the recalculation of hundreds of sentences. A "suspicious substance" ...

judge in a non-jury trial next month. The inmate, Purcell Bronson, is one of the Department of Correction’s most notorious filers of lawsuits. But U.S. District Judge A. Richard Caputo ruled Bronson ...

Folsom, Sacramento County-- Tucked within the sweeping green hills here is one of California's high-security prisons, and within it a cellblock for the worst of the worst inmates, where a visit ...