An investigation is underway into the death of a Montgomery County Jail inmate after two struggles with jail staff and reportedly ramming his head into a cell door.

On a wing with 130 residents, the news of Dale’s death spread fast. I don’t know what time the medical examiner arrived — I ...

Justice chiefs relied on academic research on the best colours for the walls and floors, amid a violence and overcrowding ...

Senior officers linked with the project said that the construction of cells has been planned in such a manner that high-risk ...

In the event of a fire or earthquake without the control system the evacuations would go from the under two minutes they ...

CRANSTON – The locks on some prison cell doors in Maximum Security at the Adult Correctional Institutions are malfunctioning, “a real significant problem,” says the head of the correctional officers’ ...

Detainees report not having access to private toilets, showers, hygiene products, and lifesaving HIV and diabetes medication.

An ombudsman has raised concerns over the way checks on prisoners are carried out at a privately-run jail after an inmate hanged himself in his cell. Ashley Ferrie died at HMP Fosse Way, in Glen ...

although there were cases where the "clang of the prison cell door" for the first time might have a deterrent effect, statistics showed that relatively few people were put off by their first ...

A young woman who "felt safer in prison than in the community" did ... At around 9.30pm a woman in the cell next door to Ms Craig called the officers on duty to ask them to tell Ms Craig to ...

It includes an assault and tickets for disciplinary infractions of all manner, including “gassing,” prison jargon for ... or chronically mule-kick cell doors, their rage echoing off the ...

So later that day, during one of my twice-weekly hours in the outdoor recreation cage, I started asking questions: “Raise your hand if you’ve ever been sexually abused while in prison ... on the door ...