In just a few years, overdoses in Nevada prisons have increased nearly tenfold, according to prisons director James Dzurenda.

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student was put to death ...

A New Orleans jail escapee who spent nearly five months on the run before his capture this week in Atlanta has agreed to be ...

The U.S. Marshals say the only escaped inmate who remained on the run after breaking out of a New Orleans jail in May has ...

(FOX40.COM) — The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office has officially transitioned all personal mail services on Thursday for the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility and the Truckee Substation Jail to ...

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 ...

Plans to close an aging Jessup, Maryland, state prison next year include transferring inmates to at least two Hagerstown-area prisons and possibly all three, though details are not final, according to ...

A York City man died over the weekend while he was held as an inmate at York County Prison. Juan Gualberto Ortiz-Ortiz, 64, was found unresponsive in his unit early Sunday morning, the York County ...

A 74-year-old Nebraska prison inmate serving a life sentence for murder died Friday at the Reception and Treatment Center in Lincoln. Steven J. Murray was found guilty of first-degree murder in ...

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Federal authorities say three people have been convicted in federal court on drug-related charges, and one of them is already facing charges in connection to an alleged ...

A 27-year-old California State Prison, Solano inmate was stabbed with an “improvised weapon” and died Wednesday and two other inmates are now under investigation, state prison officials said.

A 27-year-old California State Prison, Solano inmate was stabbed with an “improvised weapon” and died Wednesday and two other inmates are now under investigation, state prison officials said.