When correction officers finally entered the cell at Northern State Prison in Newark, 28-year-old Melvin Rivas Inoa was dead.
The family of the deceased inmate plans to sue the state Department of Corrections because inmates did nothing to stop the ...
A shocking inmate-on-inmate murder at a New Jersey prison is raising serious questions about supervision at the facility. The ...
A federal jury this week decided in favor of an SCI-Greene inmate who said he had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment after being held in solitary confinement for 50 days in a section ...
New videos show Oklahoma prison guards watched for 45 minutes as an inmate was strangled to death by his cellmate, sparking outrage and a lawsuit.
According to Slidell police, Douglas Koch, 65, was found unresponsive inside his jail cell.
Lawyers for the defense and prosecution called the jail to warn that a prisoner was suicidal. Then the inmate hanged himself in a cell.
Corrections is scrambling to build more prisoner accommodation as inmate numbers hit record highs, and continue to climb. And it admits building the extra beds will mean other work including asset ...