Hundreds, and perhaps even thousands, of inmates inside U.S. prisons have gotten ahold of cell phones. Many spend the evenings chatting away in their cells. It's a problem many prison officials don't ...

A Clark County Detention Center inmate who was found dead inside a cell with an imprisoned Discovery Channel reality show ...

An inmate at Cook County Jail died last week after a fire inside his cell, sheriff's officials said. Around 7:15 p.m. Thursday, correctional officers in the residential treatment unit of the jail ...

A Philadelphia woman has been charged with trying to smuggle a cellphone to an inmate at Delaware County prison. The Delaware County Criminal Investigation Division has charged Pearl Nimley, 26, and ...

WAUPUN, Wis. (WBAY) - The Wisconsin Department of Corrections confirmed Monday that a fire broke out in a cell at Waupun Correctional Institution early Saturday morning. At about 2:30 a.m. on Saturday ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — There are growing concerns from union leaders after four Minnesota corrections officers were injured during an attack inside the Rush City Correctional Facility Saturday afternoon.

A massive manhunt is on for two California fugitives who cut jail bars and rappelled out of their second-story cell window in the oldest section of the Santa Clara County Main Jail on Thanksgiving eve ...

A 23-year-old inmate who was suspected of concealing drugs inside his body was found dead in his cell just three days after beginning a sentence for burglary at Limerick Prison, an investigation has ...