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LENOIR, N.C. – Law Enforcement officers captured an escaped inmate near Caldwell Correctional Institution Friday morning. The ...

A federal inmate in Lenoir escaped and was recaptured within the span of a few hours Friday morning. The Department of Adult ...

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) released a report Oct. 1 that found conditions in Georgia prisons unconstitutional, and on Thursday, one local family from ...

The Department of Adult Corrections confirmed the incident, stating that Greer, held at the minimum-security prison, managed ...

The Richland County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday, Oct. 17 that Emanuel Planco was arrested after escaping from the Chesterfield detention center on Oct. 14. Planco was one of four inmates who ...

In May, Janecia Green pleaded guilty to helping those four escape the Bibb County Jail on Oct. 16, 2023. Even though the guidelines for her sentencing suggested she serve between 4 to 10 months in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The leading private prison company in the U.S. has spent more than $4.4 million to settle dozens of ...

Union leaders are calling on state officials to provide more funding, better pay and more staffing, as well as to restore bargaining rights to correctional officers, in the wake of the latest ...

Pullano is now executive director of Citizens for Prison Reform and coordinates a campaign called Open MI Door. These days she spends much of her time lobbying to obtain data about the state’s ...

Inmates at San Quentin State Prison shown from the neck down wearing blue uniforms and navy sweat pants that say “CDCR prisoner” wait in line in 2016. When a 2016 California law made it ...

Some things are better off from a distance; the closer you get to them, the scarier they become. One of those things is prison. We love watching documentaries about them, and we dig shows that revolve ...