Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Jail and Prison Oversight Omnibus Bill Friday, which seeks to reform prisons across the state. The reforms in the bill include more cameras in prisons, releasing video ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Video obtained by the 8 News Now Investigators shows the scene of an alleged murder inside High Desert State Prison. Sources identified the victim as 33-year-old Dylan Walters. The ...

An investigation found that dozens of people in New York prisons have died from preventable or treatable conditions over the past decade. Inmate Jason Phillips died from a treatable throat infection ...

For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for the first time, that hundreds of people died in state prisons between 2018 ...

When Alan Lancaster died in January 2023 at South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, his family went looking for answers. The Missouri Department of Corrections recorded his death as an ...

Thirteen inmates died over the weekend in a prison in Ecuador that has seen 44 killed in violence in the past month, authorities said Monday. The deaths occurred Sunday at a prison in the coastal city ...

The prison inspector has expressed grave concern at a 55% increase in deaths in the country’s jails in 2024 — and pointed to the worsening overcrowding crisis and mental health pressures as factors.

Ashley Dolcy heard panic in her husband’s voice. On most evenings, they would talk after she returned home from her job as an assistant principal at a school in the Bronx. Jason “Poppy” Phillips would ...