The inmates are still gone but baseball is coming back to the Old Joliet Prison. The Joliet Slammers will play on the historic grounds against the Gateway Grizzlies of Sauget, Illinois, in an ...

LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. -- Louisiana authorities said Friday that eight inmates escaped from a rural jail, including some facing murder charges, setting off another manhunt in a state where bold jail ...

Three inmates are facing charges after a fight broke out inside a suburban Chicago jail on Sunday.

Fighting that broke out at a Georgia state prison over the weekend left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 more inmates, the Georgia Department of Corrections said Monday. The ...

The escape comes after 10 inmates escaped last spring from the New Orleans jail, leading to national headlines and a monthslong search. It ended in October with the arrest of the final inmate who ...

A Florida man who had been incarcerated at Lancaster County Prison died Friday after reporting difficulty breathing to prison staff, according to a press release sent by prison officials Monday. John ...

In a historic purchase, the former Wayne Correctional Center in Goldsboro, which shut down in 2013, was bought by a nonprofit founded by a formerly incarcerated man, WITN reports. Kerwin Pittman, the ...

DAVISBORO, Ga. (AP) — Three inmates were killed and a corrections officer and several other inmates were injured when a fight broke out Sunday at a state prison in Georgia, according to local police.

An inmate at the York County Prison died in his cell this week in what is being investigated as a suicide. The deceased, 34-year-old Adam Miller, had been held at the facility since January 3 on a ...