More New York state prisons could close this year after Gov. Kathy Hochul reached a budget agreement with legislative leaders. The 2025-26 state budget authorizes Hochul to close up to three prisons.

Federal officials on Friday said they are taking steps that will give state and federal prisons the right to jam the signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates, devices they argue allow prisoners to ...

CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Federal officials on Friday said they are taking steps that will give state and federal prisons the right to jam the signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates, devices they argue ...

SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – Three people in Spartanburg County are accused of using books to smuggle drugs into South Carolina prisons, according to documents from the South Carolina Department ...

A former correctional officer, a former inmate at a South Carolina prison and the ex-inmate's brother have been arrested and charged with running a widespread operation to smuggle drugs into over a ...

A 45-year-old Florida man was charged with conspiring to distribute fentanyl into federal prisons using a drone, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced Friday. According to federal prosecutors, James Key ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 45-year-old Florida man was charged with conspiring to distribute fentanyl into federal prisons using a drone, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced Friday. According to ...

As soon as Shelly Keene heard rumblings that North Lake Correctional Center in rural Michigan would reopen as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, she got to work on a list of ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) is hoping its new partnership with several community organizations will lead to an influx in tips surrounding cold case ...

Incarcerated people exercise in the maximum security yard of the Lansing Correctional Facility in April 2023 in Lansing, Kan. This year, several states have taken steps to install air conditioning and ...

Another Texas summer is here, and once again, tens of thousands of people incarcerated in Texas prisons are sweltering, and some are dying, because they’re denied the necessity of air conditioning.

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – There is a possibility that two of the three private prisons owned by CoreCivic could open soon and house detained immigrants. The reporting came first from Oklahoma Watch, ...