Lawrence Antonio Borom was pronounced dead inside Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown after being found unresponsive by correctional officers, according to Maryland State Police.

The Bauchi State House of Assembly has passed a bill to establish sanitary pad banks in schools, correctional facilities, and community centres across the state. Speaking after the bill’s ...

Multiple people were taken to the hospital after a brawl at the Macomb Correctional Facility. The fight led to lawmakers calling for reform in the state prison system. All those hospitalized are ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Garza County commissioners accepted three proposals from interested Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility operators. The deadline for proposals ended at 10 a.m. Monday, March 10 ...

Gov. Evers suggested borrowing taxpayer money to pay for the bulk of the projects. He blamed the Republican-controlled Legislature for a more than $13 billion deferred maintanence backlog.

Tennessee houses nearly 29% of its inmates in private prisons, ranking it among the top four states nationally. Since 2000, the number of Tennessee prisoners in private facilities has surged by 95 ...

AUBURN, N.Y. — Corrections Officers have begun returning to work at Auburn Correctional Facility, which could signal an end to the weekslong prison strike across New York state. Ahead of the 6: ...

As Illinois’ prison population sits at a near 30-year low, the Illinois Department of Corrections has put out a bid to build two new 1,500-single-celled facilities. That bid is part of a $900 million ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On Monday, Feb. 17, guards at two New York state prisons began a strike unauthorized by their union, the ...

A new mutual agreement has been reached to return New York's striking correction officers to work on Monday, according to the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). According ...

The facilities considered to be no longer striking Friday afternoon were Bedford Hills, Edgecombe, Fishkill, Green Haven, Hale Creek, Hudson, Marcy, Queensboro, Shawangunk, Sing Sing and Taconic.