A dedicated prison maintenance officer accused of 'playing the hero' after he bravely tried to stop a prisoner from escaping ...

A hidden camera finally installed in August captured the teacher — who had previously served time for trafficking — passing drugs across his desk, shaking his genitals at students and rubbing up ...

Williams was working alone in an understaffed prison without any protection — no pepper spray, no stab proof vest and no man down radio. With continuous bargaining efforts from the Council of Prison ...

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The mass firing of 2,000 New York prison workers who refused to end a three-week strike seemed to create a mass hiring opportunity for county jails in dire need of correction officers. But an ...

The prison healthcare contractor formerly responsible for inmate medical care in Alabama has now filed for bankruptcy after losing its billion-dollar contract with ...