The Nevada Department of Corrections reported the deaths of five inmates, including three convicted of murder, between late ...

Kopp was serving a sentence of 120 to 300 months for second-degree murder, the department said. The Review-Journal previously reported that, according to police, Kopp confessed in a 911 call to ...

Howard Twilley died at age 81, according to his alma mater, the University of Tulsa. No cause of death was given. Twilley was ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The Nevada Department of Corrections reported five prisoner deaths, including three convicted ...

A man was convicted of multiple counts of child abuse, the Washoe County District Attorney's Office announced.A jury returned ...

A former state prison employee has been sentenced to 90 days in prison after pleading guilty to sexual contact with an inmate. The 36-year-old woman, a former employee of the Mike Durfee State ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — The death of inmate Robert L. Brooks, who was brutally beaten by multiple New York state corrections officers, has been ruled a homicide, according to a family lawyer.

Inmate Tam Le, 53, was found unresponsive in his cell on Tuesday, according to Joseph Terra, superintendent of SCI-Phoenix. Prison staff and medical personnel immediately responded and provided ...

Big, strong iron bars, and small dark cells holding up large numbers of poorly fed inmates are the images that spring to mind about Nigeria’s prisons. This is not the picture of a correctional ...