For three months she had helped to get items into the jail, including mobile phone chargers, tobacco and bottles of vodka.

Utica, N.Y. — A third New York state corrections officer has pleaded guilty in connection with the fatal beating of an inmate ...

Former corrections officers Jeffrey Wilson and Lawrence Gacad became the ninth and 10th individuals charged in connection ...

Six men have been found guilty of a series of suspected gangland attacks including setting the cars of prison officers on ...

The Supreme Court ruled that a federal prison inmate cannot sue corrections officers for an alleged assault in which he was ...

Elias Morgan and co-defendant Anthony Cleary deny the murder of Lenny Scott, who was shot by a gunman wearing a hi-vis jacket ...

A former local state corrections officer, charged in connection with the beating death of Mid-State Correctional Facility inmate, in March, pled guilty, Tuesday, in Oneida County Court.

Ronald Mortensen, who has been incarcerated for nearly 30 years, serving a life without parole sentence for the 1996 off-duty ...

MURPHY, N.C. (AP) — A federal inmate escaped from custody at a medical clinic in western North Carolina and fatally shot a detention officer with his own gun Monday, then fled in a stolen vehicle ...