Police are searching for two inmates who escaped from the Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center in Hodgen, Oklahoma, on Feb. 8 ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is searching for two inmates who unlawfully walked away from a correctional center in ...

Two inmates walked away from the Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center in Hodgen, Oklahoma, at 11:15 a.m., according to ...

Injured inmate evaluated by staff members and transported to outside hospital to receive treatment and has since returned to ...

Murder cases over drug overdoses are rare. An investigator reported cameras tied two Oklahoma County jail inmates to another inmate's Jan. 18 death.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Vidor woman was indicted on a charge of murder in connection with a fatal drug ...

Steve Coleman was kept for 21 months after his parole date because the state could not find a nursing home placement.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Officers intentionally kept the conditions in a local Alabama jail “as filthy as possible” to convince county commissioners to increase salaries and jail budget, a ploy that ...

An inmate in the Dallas County jail has been charged in Hickory County for alleged sexual abuse of a seven-year-old girl.

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn't obtain drugs for lethal injections. A shield law passed in 2023 keeps private the ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing to close two state prisons and two community corrections centers in a cost-saving measure that ...