What might someone who is living in the free world, but considering killing themselves, learn from prisoners about hanging on ...

Prison guards have been accused of more than 120 acts of brutality that amounted to torture in the past decade in New York, a ...

A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on ...

You've been waiting for one final delivery to complete that perfect holiday gift for your sweet Aunt Joan. The delivery - however - landed on someone else's front porch. With the holiday shopping ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Governor Kathy Hochul will not sign the Omnibus Prison Reform Package, she announced on Tuesday. It's just one of several important bills that remain on the governor's desk as the year ...

A 32-year-old Rikers Island inmate died behind bars early Sunday — the 14th in-custody death at the Big Apple jail complex this year, Correction Department officials said. Aramis Furse “appeared ...

An inmate described as “armed and dangerous” escaped from a Georgia hospital after a suicide attempt — stealing an SUV and a handgun in the process, according to authorities. Timothy Shane was taken ...

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top. By Brian HoweyMukta Joshi ...

A Muslim chaplain employed by the state prisons system fatally shot himself early Friday in the same facility where inmate Robert Brooks was beaten to death by correction officers in December 2024.

A South Carolina death row inmate convicted of killing a man and writing a message to investigators with the victim's blood more than 20 years ago elected on Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen ...

Utica, N.Y. — A former New York state corrections officer was sentenced Monday in connection with the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this year at a Central New York prison. Oneida County Court ...

Editor’s note: The video above aired on Oct. 17, 2025. MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (PIX11) – A sergeant and four police officers have been suspended after an inmate shot another inmate inside a van heading to ...