The lawsuit names the governor, the director and deputy director of the Michigan Department of Corrections, and about three dozen employees, from corrections officers to the warden, at the Women's ...

The lawsuit, filed by at least 20 women, claims the correctional facility in Ypsilanti allowed “state-sponsored voyeurism.” ...

A grand jury has indicted two state correction officers for second-degree murder and eight others for lesser charges in the death of an inmate at Mid-State Correctional ... A Mid-State CERT ...

One of the ten people charged in the beating death of Robert Brooks pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in Oneida ...

Human skeletal remains found inside a shed in Concord last month have been identified. Investigators said that on April 21, a ...

John Kennedy Javier Sebastian had been one of 10,000 inmates at Lima's Lurigancho prison — Peru's most crowded, and built to hold 2,500. On Monday night, he escaped from his cell, "bypassed ...

A 51 year-old inmate who walked away from a California Department of Rehabilitation facility in San Diego is still being sought by the agency. Nick A. Lopez removed his GPS device and left the ...

The private visits for some prisoners follow a Constitutional Court ruling that recognised inmates' right to have "intimate meetings" with partners visiting from outside The Tribune, now published ...

A Busan prison has launched an investigation into one of its inmates sneaking in banned items into the facility, which sparked security concern at correctional facilities here. Busan Detention ...

In the ruling published in January 2024, the court said inmates should have the right to private meetings with spouses or long-term partners, with no prison guards watching over them. The ruling ...

"We can say that a sort of experiment went well and in the next few days there will be other meetings," he said of the first intimate meeting at the prison in Terni. In the ruling published in January ...