Nevada prisons have nearly 700 undocumented immigrants in custody, costing taxpayers about $24 million a year.

A high-profile inmate escape, the resignation of the prisons director, and reports that fences, doors and windows were ...

Prosecutors say Matthew Vogel, who had violated parole on a drug charge, was killed by his cellmate one day before he was set ...

The US president wants to send unauthorised immigrants to Guantanamo Bay, a prison notorious for the abuse of inmates.

A registered sex offender who was again accused of sexual assault against a child was convicted by an Ector County jury Wednesday on two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of ...

While incarcerated at Nevada Southern Detention Center in late January, Casanova was in good spirits as he opened up about ...

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — A man wanted for the deaths of three inmates during a brawl at a Nevada state prison has been arrested in Reno, the Reno Police Department announced on Tuesday.

As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to help contain the blazes, the department confirmed to CBS News.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A death row inmate who killed two employees at a restaurant ... was pronounced dead at Centennial Hospital in Las Vegas on Thursday, according to the Nevada Department of ...

Two inmates at the state’s maximum-security prison including a convicted murderer died one day apart this week, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced. So far in January, three High ...

The family of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death last month at an upstate New York prison, filed a federal ... Body camera footage shows officers beating inmate Robert Brooks at the Marcy ...

at the male-only state prison California State Prison, Sacramento in Folsom. Paul Kitagaki Jr. pkitagaki@sacbee.com An inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento died Wednesday after two ...