The Progress Community Corrections Center (CCC) in Waynesburg, a facility designed to assist inmates with their reentry into society, is among four state facilities being slated for closure. A state ...

The victim's mother reportedly learned about it and told the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday.

Death investigations are underway after two Hinds County detainees died while being housed at the Tallahatchie Correctional ...

Correctional officer unions are backing a bill introduced earlier this month that would change how mail is processed in federal prisons.

Aaron E. Imhoff, 56, was arrested on suspicion of arson, burglary and felony criminal damage, all Class 2 felonies. He was ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...