ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Monroe County is making progress in addressing staffing shortages at its jail and courts. The county is currently down about 27 deputies, a significant improvement from a previous ...

Staffing shortages at New York prisons have worsened, morale among guards remains low, and the lives of incarcerated people are still disrupted six months after a wildcat prison strike ended. And ...

A group of about two dozen people gathered at the City Workhouse to demonstrate solidarity with an ongoing nationwide prison strike. Chris Bergh, 35, who helped organize the rally on Sunday, said the ...

The corrections officer strike that lasted for just over three weeks in New York has officially ended, according to New York state officials. Daniel F. Martuscello III, commissioner of the New York ...

TUNIS (Reuters) -Jailed Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, 84, began a hunger strike, joining two prominent politicians who are protesting what they call “unjust imprisonment,” lawyers said ...

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas — A giant smiley face watches over the town from a bulbous water tower that can be seen from almost every vantage point. For nearly a decade, a private prison has accounted for ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — A man convicted of killing a man in Tacoma and two separate assault charges in Spokane was sentenced to life in prison without parole this week under Washington state's "Three Strikes ...

Corrective Services staff across NSW walked off the job in October after prisoner Cameron Welsh, 27, who assaulted the staff ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An American airstrike in April on a prison run by Yemen’s Houthi rebels that killed over 60 detained African migrants should be investigated as a possible war crime, ...