Nearly two dozen incarcerated women received bachelor’s degrees through Cal State LA on Oct. 3, marking the first all-female ...

To serve and protect. That's the well-known motto of law enforcement agencies around the United States. While deputies, officers, sheriffs and chiefs serve the community they protect, unintended ...

A federal judge has granted class action status to lawsuits claiming Louisiana regularly kept inmates in prison past their ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A new class of officers just joined the ranks at Louisville Metro Department of Corrections. Members of Corrections Academy Class 140 were officially sworn in during a ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — A number of West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation employees are suspended and West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is calling for some terminations after a ...

Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie has abruptly postponed the latest Correction Academy class just as it was poised to start training on Feb. 15 because it only had roughly 40 recruits, ...

MADISON, Wis. — Graduates from the largest Wisconsin Department of Corrections class of the year got their badges Thursday, and they’re ready to take on a tough job in a field that really needs them. ...

In 2018, voters formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude from the state Constitution with a ballot measure that ...

CHARLESTON — A Southern West Virginia law firm representing inmates in the state’s correctional system is appealing a decision by a federal judge at the beginning of July to dismiss the case filed ...

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.V. – A number of employees of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation have been suspended amid an investigation into a photograph showing a training class ...

Colorado’s prisons are understaffed and overcrowded, pushing inmates into county jails. The state’s emergency plan is now ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state’s correctional officers can sue the Department of Corrections as a class in an effort to get compensation for the time it takes the officers to ...