Ohio inmate Tommy Meadows won a $404,000 jury award in a civil rights lawsuit. Meadows was pepper sprayed and put into solitary confinement.

Charles Adair, 50, died on July 5 while in custody at the Wyandotte County Detention Center in Kansas City, Kan., of homicide caused by "complications of mechanical asphyxia" An affidavit filed in ...

The sheriff's office said 39-year-old Joseph Brown "was in a trusted position on kitchen work detail," when he used his role ...

Behind bars for murder since she was 15 years old, Serena Tobaccojuice has amassed a record of prison hostage-takings. A ...

Seven correction officers were injured, including three seriously enough to require hospital treatment, following two violent inmate attacks at a maximum-security prison in Dutchess County. The ...