The prisoner earlier pleaded guilty to assaulting one of the officers in a related incident at Bellamy Creek near Ionia.

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Human rights groups warn that El Salvador's prisons are marked by overcrowding, lack of access to basic services and repeated rights violations — but that the situation is even worse for women, who ...

A new bill under consideration at the State House seeks to increase the number of inmates in Maine who qualify for free phone ...

Raysean M. Colvin, 20; Damion D. Weeden Sr., 44; and John A. Hammond Jr., 45, all of Alton, plus Vernon G. McIntosh, 39, of ...

A deputy is accused of alerting inmates at the Monroe County Jail before cell searches took place. He's the second deputy ...

A corrections officer at W.C. Holman Correctional Facility has been arrested on multiple charges in connection with her job.

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By embracing automated record clearing, we recognize that everyone has the potential for change and the government shouldn’t ...

Amanda Knox, the American woman who was convicted of and later exonerated for murdering her former roommate in Italy over a decade ago, opens up about her new memoir.