Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cheshire Correctional Institution in a file photo. (Contributed photo — Connecticut Department of Correction ) CHESHIRE - An ...

SAN JOSE — A former Santa Clara County correctional deputy convicted of helping jail inmates ambush another inmate four years ago was sentenced Tuesday to 45 days in jail, following a trial that ...

A Virginia appeals court upheld the firing of a prison guard caught on video assaulting an inmate and joking about it.

French police fired tear gas to break up a picket line of striking prison guards at Europe’s biggest jail on Friday, as a fresh assault by inmates on staff at a facility in Corsica fuelled demands for ...

A Santa Clara County correctional officer will spend more than a month behind bars after helping two inmates carry out a jailhouse attack against another inmate, then conspiring with them to cover it ...