WISE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A state investigation launched after several Red Onion State Prison inmates burned themselves and alleged racism, sexual abuse and mistreatment found that a majority of the ...

Christopher Lee Hardman, 39, Pine Grove. 12:57 a.m. at 20100 block of Highway 88 in Pine Grove: Felony Post Release Community Supervision Violation, Felony Battery With Serious Bodily Injury, Felony ...

South Carolina prison officials suspect that an inmate died by homicide at Turbeville Correctional Institution on Dec. 31, 2025, according to SCDC. Gavin McIntyre gmcintyre@thestate.com An inmate was ...

Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates? By Jan Ransom Jan Ransom has been covering the ...

The death of an inmate at the Cummins Unit near Grady on Monday is under investigation, prison officials said. Rand Champion, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Corrections, said an internal ...

Complaints of understaffing, ignored medical emergencies and other concerns at the state prison in Chesapeake are included in a recent federal lawsuit seeking judicial oversight of the Virginia ...

LANSING—This year, Michigan’s prison recidivism rate, or the number of people leaving prison and then returning, is the lowest on record, with nearly 80% of ex-inmates staying out of prison three ...

An inmate in the Lewis Complex at Buckeye State Prison has died following an altercation with his cellmate, officials confirmed. The death of Joshua Walker, 41, is being investigated as a homicide, ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. An inmate at the Penitentiary of New Mexico south of Santa Fe faces counts of aggravated battery with a deadly ...

Half the people released from prison in South Dakota return within three years, according to the state Department of Corrections’ newly released 2025 annual report — the highest recidivism rate in at ...

A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison.