A Yakima man who was sentenced to prison in March but never showed up to serve his sentence was back in Kittitas County ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary held its first ever ‘Father Daughter Dance’ this month. Prisoners reunited with their ...

Michigan Department of Corrections partners with post-secondary education institutions to offer licenses and certifications ...

Rahmanullah Lakanwal drove from Bellingham, Washington, to shoot two West Virginia National Guard members deployed in ...

The inmate who escaped from the St. Francis County detention center was captured Wednesday after he ran off while taking out ...

Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown led a multistate lawsuit Tuesday challenging new homelessness funding restrictions by the Trump administration that could put 170,000 formerly homeless peo ...

Corrections officers at Mid-State Correctional Facility discovered 176 sheets soaked in synthetic marijuana hidden inside an inmate’s sock during a search over the summer. The drugs were found June 11 ...

A Seattle-area corrections department is asking a Washington judge to block enforcement of a state law barring it from hiring unauthorized immigrants, following a whistleblower report alleging that ...

California State Prison, Sacramento, once known as New Folsom, was opened in 1986 and is adjacent to Folsom State Prison, California’s second-oldest correctional facility. CSP Sacramento houses ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) – Early Saturday morning, around 2:45 a.m., a Washington County Deputy near Washington State Prison heard the sound of a drone flying overhead. The deputy located the ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Two correctional ...

Inmates in Washington's prison system now have an additional resource if they are experiencing suicidal thoughts. Elisabeth Kingsbury, the interim director of Washington’s Office of the Corrections ...