Sixty-six legislators recently sent a letter to Governor Maura Healey calling for safety improvements at state prisons ...

Two correctional officers were stabbed by inmates inside a maximum security prison in Shirley, Massachusetts. The assault happened at the Souza-Baranowski correctional center Wednesday night.

Drug smuggling by staff has become a recurring problem in Alabama's prison system, along with assaults and overcrowding.

Advocates say they're not surprised that violence erupted at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center last week because they've been monitoring complaints about conditions inside the maximum ...

Dennis Martin, the president of the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union, said concerns from the union about conditions inside the prison have “fallen on deaf ears.” ...

A Washington Post investigation found that officials didn’t act on staff complaints about facility violence, which culminated ...

Singer Ciara and Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson sang gospel songs with inmates inside a maximum security prison in Miami, Florida, during a visit with the Christian ministry God Behind ...

Another officer was stabbed and three other responding officers were hurt during the assault inside the maximum security prison, the union previously told MassLive. The incarcerated men believed ...

Operational searches were conducted inside the prison ... These statistics also call into question the security of maximum-security prisons, since they show that more than 64% of all assaults ...

It was just last month that the union sounded the alarm that dozens of “homemade sharpened weapons” were found inside the maximum security prison. Dennis Martin, the president of the ...