JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – William DeWayne “Bill” Weitzel, age 81, of Jefferson City, Missouri, passed away peacefully Wednesday, ...

Declining inmate populations and costly needed repairs at the aging prisons are cited as reasons for potential closure. While some advocate for closures to consolidate resources for inmates ...

The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) says its Stillwater prison will be undergoing a phased closure as part of the state’s economic plan, as well as decrease the amount of current ...

The crisis in Ecuador’s prisons has escaped the confines of the penitentiary system to sow violence, corruption, and chaos around the country. The political assassinations, terrorist-style attacks, ...

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...

Recent escalating prison violence has been described as "out of control" by a union boss amid three separate attacks which have left five officers injured. Steve Gillan, general secretary of the ...

The prison officials discovered the cat sneaking over a barbed wire fence, according to video posted online Prison officials in Costa Rica caught an unlikely suspect attempting to smuggle drugs ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. House Bill 3006 would require the installation of climate control in ...

In the EU, 13 member states reported overcrowded prison cells. Poland, Hungary, and Czechia have the highest prisoner rates in the EU. There were around 499,000 prisoners in the EU in 2023 ...

A judge on Monday sentenced three leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood to federal prison terms, clearing the way for the men to be transferred from the California lockups where they orchestrated ...

Kingston, NY (WRGB) — Jorge Torres, a 28-year-old former corrections officer from Bronx, New York, has pled guilty to promoting prison contraband in the first degree. Torres, who was employed at ...

Last summer, Kenneth Barrett recalls spending 46 days — about half the summer — in solitary confinement at Algoa Correctional Center, a minimum security prison in Jefferson City, Missouri. In ...