A detention officer with the Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff's Office died Wednesday evening from injuries he suffered when an inmate attacked him.
The proposal was born out of the conclusion of Mayor Bill de Blasio and other Democrats that mass incarceration and a massive jail complex are out of step in an era of falling crime rates.
The assailant—identified as Curtis Ray Watson—reportedly stole a tractor and reflective vest and drove off the facility and currently remains at large.
An escaped inmate is the prime suspect in corrections administrator Debra Johnson's murder at her home Wednesday.
Puerto Rico Correctional Officer Pedro Rodríguez-Mateo succumbed to head injuries sustained the previous day when he was attacked by an inmate at the Ponce Maximum Security Facility.
The Pinal County (AZ) Sheriff's Office has a new partnership with Securus Technologies to bring technology to the inmates at the Adult Detention Center. Inmates are now able to use tablets to help advance their education and gain new skills while they are incarcerated.
An Alabama Department of Corrections K-9 that was exposed to illegal narcotics—identified by a hazmat team identified it as synthetic marijuana—late last week has died.
The wife of a former Rikers Island Corrections Officer who was so badly beaten by several inmates that he suffered a broken neck and spinal injuries has filed a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit seeking $1 million damages against the city and the Department of Corrections.
A new state law in New Jersey will let almost all retired law enforcement under age 65 become armed school police officers, including former correctional officers who spent their careers guarding prisons.
Guards saw Kerri Jo Hickman shoot a package filled with cellphones, ear buds, meth, marijuana and digital scales March 10 into North Fork Correctional Unit from her car before driving away.