With a shortage of correctional officers, some Virginia prisons are taking a surprising new approach to discipline – forcing ...

Skeptical Arkansas lawmakers seemed unwilling to accept Thursday that the escape of a convicted murderer and rapist was the fault of only two prison employees. Members of the Charitable, Penal, and ...

LITTLE ROCK -- Two employees at an Arkansas prison where an inmate known as the "Devil in the Ozarks" escaped have been fired for policy violations, corrections officials said Thursday as they faced ...

Dressed in an all-black disguise designed to look like a police officer's or prison employee's uniform, Grant Hardin had to find a way to overcome a locked gate at the sallyport of the North Central ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A convicted murderer and former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks" pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge stemming from his recent escape from an Arkansas prison.

Businesswoman Vicky Boodram has been granted a variation to her bail conditions after spending close to eight years behind ...

Sweat "acted like he knew [Mitchell] for years," former inmate says. — -- As both a prison employee and a corrections officer face charges for allegedly helping convicted murderers Richard Matt ...

Originally used as a military prison in the 19th century, in 1933 the American government decided Alcatraz would keep the ...

An inmate at the Chester County Prison was quickly apprehended after attempting to escape on Wednesday afternoon, the Chester County District Attorney's Office announced. Thomas Hackett, 35, of ...

Seth Frazier, the last defendant in an attempted 2017 prison escape from the Pasquotank Correctional Center, was sentenced ...

Note: The above video is from 2017, when the first of four inmates convicted in the deaths of four Pasquotank Correctional ...