Officers told the wrong family about the death of an inmate at a maximum security prison. The error emerged in a Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) investigation ...

An inmate in a Tucson prison died Aug. 9 under unknown circumstances, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry. Elmer Shields, 32, died at the Arizona State Prison ...

Failures by staff might have contributed to the death of a vulnerable prisoner who took his own life on his first night at HMP Hewell, an inquest jury has concluded. Mesut Olgun died in June 2018, six ...

A coroner has called for action following a prisoner's death at HMP High Down after an inmate said it was easier to get drugs or a mobile phone at the prison than sugar. Oliver Mulangala, 40, was ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The in-custody death of an inmate at the Englewood Federal Correctional Institution on Wednesday is under investigation, according to prison officials.

Maryland State Police are investigating a state prison inmate death at Jessup Correctional Institution, officials announced Sunday. Around 8 p.m. Saturday, the state police Homicide Unit was contacted ...

NORRISTOWN — An inmate at the state prison in Skippack Township admitted to stomping another inmate to death at the facility and increased his time behind bars by more than a dozen years. Dwight ...

LGBTI+ and women's rights organizations have called for a full investigation into the suspicious death of a trans man named Poyraz, who died on Dec 1 while in custody at Sincan Women’s Closed Prison ...