At least a dozen others were hospitalized after violence erupted at Washington State Prison in Davisboro, officials said. The state has struggled to deal with assaults and other systemic problems in ...

Fighting that broke out at a Georgia state prison over the weekend left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 more inmates, the Georgia Department of Corrections said Monday. The ...

Three inmates are dead and 13 are injured following a fight at Washington State Prison in Davisboro. Local deputies and state troopers assisted the GDC in regaining control of the facility and ...

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Three inmates were reportedly killed and more than a dozen injured in a massive brawl at a Georgia prison. The fight broke out around 1:25 p.m. Sunday at Washington State Prison in Davisboro, and ...

An inmate in a Solano County state prison is suspected of killing another incarcerated man, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Tuesday. On Jan. 4 just before 7:30 p.m., a ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Jail and Prison Oversight Omnibus Bill Friday, which seeks to reform prisons across the state. The reforms in the bill include more cameras in prisons, ...

U.S.-allied forces guarding prisons holding thousands of Islamic State group militants in northeastern Syria said Monday that they had lost control of one of the facilities after fighting broke out ...

A New York prison guard who stood idly by as other guards beat a handcuffed inmate to death should be convicted of manslaughter, prosecutors argued Thursday. Former corrections officer Michael Fisher, ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Washington County Sheriff's Office said on Sunday that there was a "possible riot" at the Washington State Prison. Sheriff Joel Cochran said just before 5 p.m. that two ...

The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC. By Kenneth ...

This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons. An investigation by The Marshall Project - Jackson and local reporting partners found that understaffing and ...