The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said it will use the report as part of the process of planning, putting out requests for proposals and hiring a contractor to build the new OCCC ...

On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections released the arrest warrants for 11 inmates in separate cases from November and December 2024.

A fourth person involved in a fentanyl death that occurred in Ripon in April 2023 has been sentenced to a 20-year prison term. According to a release from the Fond du Lac County District Attorney’s ...

Steve Coleman was kept for 21 months after his parole date because the state could not find a nursing home placement.

A former nurse who worked at Southern Regional Jail alleged she witnessed a correctional officer striking a handcuffed inmate ...

The prison has been controversial, with some supporting the prospect for jobs but others raising concerns including mass ...

At least three prisons have a 50% vacancy rate, with some so short-staffed that they have been incapable of complying with policies on safety, medical treatment and solitary confinement.

Bills moving in General Assembly would regulate prison temperatures, charge GPS companies with trespass and allow teens to work as barbers, hair stylists ...

Three people have been arrested following a seizure of more than $80,000 worth of illegal drugs at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy. The Virginia Department of Corrections has ...

On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump reversed former President Joe Biden’s executive order on private prisons. Biden’s order had barred contracts between the Department of Justice ...

Those who walked out of prison included Enrique Tarrio, the pardoned former chairman of the far-right Proud Boys group who was sentenced to 22 years, and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes ...