An Amsterdam man was sentenced to life in prison last week after he pleaded guilty to murdering his cellmate in the Jefferson County jail more than a year ago. At a sentencing Thursday, Common Pleas ...

Authorities in the South Bay have released the identities of three Santa Clara County jail inmates charged in the murder and ...

The Will County Center for Correctional Concerns provides free GED tests for detainees at the jail, but needs donations.

Among the stops on a tour Wednesday of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls was a group shower, a location which the state Department of Corrections ...

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It’s been six months since the state resumed control of the Lawrenceville Correctional Center. It was the only privately ...

It's time for the Green Bay Correctional Institution to close. There is no excuse for the conditions in which inmates live ...

Now only one signature is required for a property sale to be approved - a change that has some people concerned.

A Middle Georgia lawmaker Monday filed a bill that would require law enforcement agencies to swab for DNA of people arrested ...

Athens-Clarke police are attempting to locate a missing man who was last seen Saturday at his residence in west Athens. Timothy Lamar, 54, was reported missing on Sunday after he was last seen on ...

A North Country lawmaker plans to visit Upstate Correctional Facility, in Malone later this week.  Sen. Dan Stec will meet ...