ABUJA—A total of 114 of the 266 inmates who escaped from a Nigerian prison on Sunday have been recaptured, the prison service said on Tuesday. Heavily ...

A Wisconsin county jail will no longer refer to those incarcerated as “inmates,” but instead “residents” or “those who are in our care,” authorities announced. The ...

MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s president said Thursday he will issue a decree that could release hundreds or thousands of elderly inmates or those who have spent ten years ...

OSLO, Norway—Two inmates took a pair of prison guards hostage Wednesday at a Swedish penitentiary and are barricaded inside in what the country’s prison department called ...

The federal government is pausing all executions of federal death row inmates until a policy review is completed. Advocates of the death penalty say it’s an ...

Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups across the U.S.—and nearly half still have not been caught.

California is allowing tens of thousands of inmates to be released early. Many are violent, repeat felons. This, and the lenient laws on theft, are worrying ...

In Arizona, as the 2020 election audit continues, there has been a security breach after the Maricopa Court released sensitive documents to the public. It was ...

SACRAMENTO—California is giving 76,000 inmates, including violent and repeat felons, the opportunity to leave prison earlier as the state aims to further trim the population of ...

Since January, 261 California prison inmates have requested transfers to prisons aligning with their gender identity, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told the Daily ...

Inmates used hammers to attack staff members during a failed attempt to escape an Iowa prison, killing a nurse and an officer, kidnapping a third employee.

A private prison is struggling to find facilities to take in nearly 800 inmates before its contract with the federal government expires in three months.

QUITO, Ecuador—Sixty-two inmates have died in riots at prisons in three cities in Ecuador as a result of fights between rival gangs and an escape attempt, ...

Inmates at a St. Louis jail set fires, broke out windows, and threw things from fourth-floor windows Saturday in the latest disturbance over concerns about the ...

A federal judge in Oregon ruled on Feb. 2 that the state must begin vaccinating its more than 14,000 inmates across 14 prisons against COVID-19.

Law enforcement officials on Thursday recaptured two inmates who escaped from a state prison in Florence, Arizona, over the weekend.

Authorities in Northern California are hunting for six inmates who escaped from Merced County Downtown Jail over the weekend, police confirmed.

A recent court ruling in California is sparking public concern. The California Supreme Court says inmates convicted of “nonviolent sex crimes” can qualify for early parole. ...

Cook County Jail launched early voting over the weekend. It expects about 2-thousand pre-trial inmates to vote. That would be a 50% higher turnout than normal ...

These men haul chainsaws, axes, and other heavy equipment through ankle-deep ash, up mountainsides, hacking at the earth in search of smoldering embers. And they do ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a law that enables former inmates to withdraw guilty pleas and get their records expunged. The bill “will help ...

The U.S. Justice Department announced September execution dates for two inmates, in what could be the sixth and seventh federal executions this summer.

At least three death row inmates at California's San Quentin State Prison had CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus and died, corrections officials says.

In recent weeks, federal judges across the country have been releasing ICE detainees on the theory that they are safer outside detention centers from the CCP ...

Some 450 inmates and staff have tested positive for CCP virus at Chicago's largest jail, county corrections officials said on April 9.

Jails in New York, California, and several other states have begun releasing inmates to stop the spread of COVID-19 in jails.