Prison guards in New York say the state's correctional system is in crisis. Both guards and inmates are pleading with the state to fix what they say is a broken system.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guards at Southeast State Correctional Complex, a Kentucky state prison in Floyd County, abused their authority by planting a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Senators defied objections from Tennessee’s Correction Department and gave unanimous approval to a bill equipping prison guards in ...

Officials feared a gang riot last November at Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville after inmates discovered a guard was planting contraband tattoo needles in cells during searches, resulting in ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Authorities say a prison guard at the Iowa State Penitentiary is recovering after being attacked by an ...