Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Security forces were guarding a prison in southern Mexico on Friday where seven inmates were killed in a ...

Twenty-five inmates escaped in the attack, which authorities say was designed to free the leader of a local gang. In 2016, a prison riot left 49 inmates hacked, beaten or burned to death at the ...

Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks ... say is a pattern of “systemic overdetention” that violates inmates’ rights and costs taxpayers millions of dollars a year.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Seven inmates were killed in a prison riot in southern Mexico, when inmates resisting transfers to other jails fought police with guns and knives, authorities said.

I'm happy with the people here all getting together for us, the new change, because this wasn't even heard of when I started coming to York County Prison," one inmate said."This isn't just about ...

16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File) This combination photo shows federal death row inmates Robert Bowers, from left, the gunman who massacred 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, ...

Open prisons and open colonies will help with rehabilitation and reintegration of former jail inmates after their release, Fadnavis said. The bill also provides for the constitution of a 'prison ...

President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences, commuting their sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The announcement is sure ...

By Ed Shanahan Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York has ordered that 13 corrections officers and a prison nurse be fired after the fatal beating of an inmate in an attack that their union called ...

It means just three federal inmates are still facing execution ... the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

An inmate who died in June at the state prison in Yuma just days after undergoing hernia repair surgery succumbed from an unrelated and natural cause, according to an autopsy performed after a federal ...