The officer failed to provide lifesaving aid to the 43-year-old man as he had a seizure in a cell, according to an official report.

The population in America’s big jails and state prisons plunged by 170,000 this spring amid the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters has found in a survey of facilities around the country. All told, ...

John J. Lennon’s book, written in his twenty-fourth year in prison, provides a bracing reckoning with guilt, remorse, and the ...

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become ...

In a stunning flip, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that he would scrap the controversial plan to close the Rikers ...

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday if elected mayor he would cancel the closure of Rikers Island – New York ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A 52-year-old inmate died at the Marion County Adult Detention Center early Friday morning, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. Around 12:45 a.m. Friday, corrections ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — The mother of a man who died last week at a low-security federal prison in Jefferson County says she is still searching for answers after learning her son was stabbed to ...

You can hear the moment Carlton James became a quadriplegic, he claims, losing the use of his limbs. He is quickly taken down by correction officers, and you hear a yelp. James was in a city jail in ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — Two people are facing charges after a man who was being held at the ACI’s Intake Service Center suddenly died back in August. According to arrest reports obtained by 12 News, ...

PLAINFIELD, Ind. — More than a year after an inmate at the Plainfield Correctional Facility was beaten to death in his cell, the Hendricks County Prosecutor filed charges this week against a fellow ...