The incident occurred as the two were responding to a report of an assault on a staff member in a prison housing unit.

A former prison guard in Oneida County was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Friday for his involvement in the death of inmate and Greece native Robert Brooks.

Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other ...

A federal judge took the rare step last week of concluding an incarcerated, self-represented plaintiff should be compensated $10,000 by the U.S. government for a prison guard’s unwarranted use of ...

Samuel Harrell, 30, was reportedly beaten by as many as 20 guards April 21 at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, N.Y., about 60 miles north of New York City. Harrell, who suffered from ...

The family of Andrew Lansing filed a lawsuit alleging Ohio prisons failed to protect the officer killed in an inmate attack.

A photo on social media shows a brown-haired woman smiling in the sunshine next to a blooming flower bed and a wall with a distinctive graffiti tag. German police are now investigating allegations ...

A prison officer accused of smuggling drugs, laundering money, and having "intimate relationships with prisoners" could soon ...

Warren Avery appears before George County Circuit Judge Dale Harkey on Monday, January 29, 2018, in Lucedale. Warren Avery ...

The Hochul administration is being accused of covering up crimes in prisons by downgrading attacks committed by inmates ...