A federal jail with a documented history of power outages, staffing shortages and detainee complaints got two more ...

The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn houses hundreds of detainees awaiting trial. They include high-profile people ...

A routine facility check at a county jail just east of Atlanta on Monday morning suddenly turned into a manhunt after officials discovered three men, all accused of violent crimes, had escaped the ...

Authorities have captured three inmates, including one charged with murder, who escaped from a county jail east of Atlanta. The trio fled the DeKalb County Jail early on Dec. 22, according to the ...

Three inmates have escaped from a county jail east of Atlanta, including one charged with murder DECATUR, Ga. -- Three inmates — including one who was being held on a murder charge — have escaped from ...

LANSING, Mich. (WNEM) - The Michigan Department of Corrections is implementing a new policy that will make it harder for contraband to make its way into facilities. The policy will require all ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Incarcerated Michiganders will no longer have access to original copies of confidential and legal mail to combat drug trafficking, the Michigan Department of Corrections ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– In 2025, 19 Michigan Department of Corrections facilities harvested 116,455 pounds of fresh produce, donating it to food pantries, residential care facilities, churches, and ...

The funds held more than $19 million at the end of 2024 but receive no scrutiny from lawmakers. Some Michigan inmates say that despite large balances in the funds intended to help them, they can't ...

Correctional officers at Rhode Island’s state prison are claiming inmates made unauthorized social media posts last week and say they’ve complained to management about a lack of oversight of prisoner ...

The Oct. 22 incident is the seventh fall or jump from upper galleries at two Michigan prisons that the Free Press has documented since 2020. Five of those incidents have been fatal, records show.

LANSING — A video of Michigan prison officers in riot gear confronting a caged and handcuffed inmate and twice spraying him with chemical agents has become a central issue in a federal court lawsuit.