South Dakota has had 24 inmate deaths so far this year. With the new year approaching, we compared that to other surrounding ...

Colorado corrections officials evacuated 179 inmates from a facility near Rifle Saturday as Garfield County issued evacuation notices in advance of the still-growing Lee fire in Rio Blanco County. The ...

Arkansas Department of Corrections Secretary Lindsay Wallace has requested the agency’s board consider endorsing a “top-to-bottom assessment” of the system by which it classifies prison inmates. The ...

Governor Youngkin ordered all U.S. and Commonwealth of Virginia flags to be flown at at half-staff on all state and local buildings and grounds in honor of Virginia Department of Corrections ...

Collins Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Erie County, will consolidate by the end of the fiscal year, the ...

Jordan Pasha, Security and Operations Supervisor at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington, on a path inmates at the women’s prison use to get to the recreation yard on ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Department of Corrections says their efforts to increase prison guard staffing are working. The department says that from the first half of 2024 to the first half of ...

California's $17.5 billion prison system is over budget, contributing to a projected state deficit. Gov. Gavin Newsom has cut spending with prison closures.

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections received recommendations to improve solitary confinement, mental health care and ...