Orrectional Systems News Today

The latest conviction is one of many from the Dublin prisons former employees guilty of sexual abuse.

Continuing state investigations have found at least 35 instances where Connecticut Department of Correction employees potentially misused a COVID-19 program that provided workers with hotel rooms during the height of the pandemic

The Justice Department’s inspector general has found a series of missteps by federal Bureau of Prisons officials preceded the 2018 beating death of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. The

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The former warden of an abuse-plagued federal women’s prison known as the “rape club” went on trial Monday, accused of molesting inmates and forcing them to

Egyptian authorities have announced the release of 30 political activists from jail

Lincoln Journal Star. November 19, 2022.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessees Supreme Court ruled Friday that a state law mandating life sentences for juvenile homicide offenders is unconstitutional, saying it amounts to “cruel and unusual punishment"

Officials will begin assessing security protocols at federal prison camps across the U.S. after an inmate obtained a gun and tried to shoot a visitor in the head at a prison camp in Arizona

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man who killed his mother and buried her body in her backyard was executed Wednesday in Texas despite his lawyers’ appeals that he should not

A 13-year-old Palestinian boy whose case became a lightning rod for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seven years ago is now a man languishing in solitary confinement and struggling with schizophrenia