A manhunt is underway for a wanted inmate who investigators said escaped from a Louisiana jail on Wednesday night.

SD's attorney general is criticizing the state's prison system as DCI opens another investigation into a suspected drug ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Derrick Groves, the last escapee still on the run after breaking out of the Orleans Justice Center nearly five months ago, has been captured, authorities confirmed Wednesday.

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of ...

On Nov. 10 1936, San Mateo County police made a public announcement that seemed too audacious to be true: A former Alcatraz ...

Two women are suing Shelby County, Sheriff Floyd Bonner, and others for constitutional violations after they allege a male ...

When the inmate covered the window to his cell door with paper, officers attempted to investigate and entered his cell.

A corrections officer at the Anchorage jail was assaulted by two inmates who persuaded the officer to open the cell with a toilet paper request, Alaska State Troopers said. Troopers wrote in a ...