The Ohio State Highway Patrol confirms an investigation is underway after an inmate was seriously hurt in an assault at a ...

EXCLUSIVE REPORT The Journal-News examined state records and pored over reports on Ohio’s prison system to bring you this exclusive story. Serious assaults on the roughly 12,000 staff members working ...

Amid a continued rise in prison assaults, the Michigan Department of Corrections this month launched a new "safe prisons initiative" that aims to improve conditions for inmates and officers alike.

The Arkansas Department of Corrections has ended a telephone hotline used by inmates to report sexual assaults, saying it was being misused and abused with multiple irrelevant complaints called in.

A union representing Michigan corrections officers is sounding alarms over an increase in violent assaults against prison staff, alleging the state is too often holding dangerous prisoners in ...

The prisons minister said all assaults on prison officers are "unacceptable" after a report revealed that action is not always taken against inmates. The Independent Monitoring Board's (IMB) annual ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A man will serve two years in prison for two assaults in Rochester just 45 minutes apart from each other. Back in June 2024, Alexander Ortiz assaulted a man while yelling homophobic ...

Rickie Heinen of Marion County, Arkansas, was found guilty of two counts of rape and 48 counts of second-degree sexual ...

Numbers released by Delaware County show a 28 percent decrease year-to-year in assaults at the Delaware County prison. There were 199 assaults reported at George W. Hill Correctional Facility in 2025, ...