Twelve Black inmates at Red Onion State Prison have reportedly self-immolated since September in a bid to get transferred away from abusive guards.

A New Mexico corrections officer is under investigation for allegedly arranging assaults on two mentally ill inmates in the shower.

Robert Roberson will now have a chance to testify at a legislative hearing on Oct. 21

Idaho will now allow lethal injections to be administered via central venous lines in the groin, neck, chest, or arm.

Texas state prisons currently comprise 134,000 inmates, including 175 on death row. But, no one knows how many of them are eligible to vote, as the state doesn't keep track of this information.

Moreover, some prisons in the state are operating with up to 70% of prison guard positions unfilled as shortages continue

Smith County and Randall County officials have partnered with local high schools to house training programs that allows students to become correctional officers

Currently, about 24% of the 24,112 correctional officer positions in Texas prisons are vacant

Only about a third of Texas' 100 prison units count with full AC with the rest having partial or no air-conditioning at all.

The new caps set by the FCC are based on jail size, with lower ceilings at larger jails and prisons

At least 15 people died and 20 were injured in a clash between inmates inside the Latacunga prison in central Ecuador.

A racist former corrections officer who served at an Oklahoma prison has been convicted of violating the civil rights of black inmates by organizing and allowing white supremacist inmates to assault them.

Many of the inmates were linked to at least five inside gangs known to extort money from other inmates within the prison walls.

Five Georgia inmates with violent criminal histories managed to escape from prison, but one of them got captured.

Brittany Zamora, former elementary teacher is now tutoring other inmates while also serving her prison time for sexually abusing a male student.

Dr. Jason Valentine said he is tired of helping people who refuse to protect themselves.

5 inmates at the Guantánamo Bay detention center are being relocated to Uruguay, where they will receive asylum.

Inmates at a Maryland prison had the opportunity to escape with relative ease after 500 cell doors unlocked at once in the middle of the night on Saturday.

Two inmates including a man accused of capital murder escaped from Hopkins County Prison in Sulphur Springs, Texas, northeast of the city of Dallas.

Three dangerous men escaped a Missouri prison Monday night.