When people in the District are sentenced to longer sentences, they can be held in federal prisons anywhere in the ...

An inmate who escaped DC Police custody Sunday night was still handcuffed with his hands shackled behind his back when he ...

For more than a year, the News4 I-Team has investigated how some of those inmates say they're often targeted. Since the I-Team started looking into the issue, the recent deaths of two D.C. men ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A D.C. jail inmate who was in custody for a fatal ... RELATED | Court docs: Officers tried to stop man charged in fatal DC hit-and-run over expired tags, smell of pot ...

At least 274 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria’s Borno state following heavy flooding, the Nigerian Correctional Service said, as aid agencies reported more than 1,000 people had ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit trying to overturn the South Carolina prison system's banning on-camera, in-person interviews with inmates or recording their phone ...

LANCASTER, Mass. (AP) — Two correctional officers were stabbed by inmates at a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts, and three others were injured as they responded, a spokesperson said.