Joshua J. Smith, 50, was appointed deputy director of the Bureau of Prisons on June 9, according to a bureau spokesperson. He ...

A private correctional company says inmates at a Tennessee prison sought to destroy property, compromised security cameras ...

Two guards were held hostage and later freed in an overnight riot at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center that drew a mass multi-agency police presence, according to officials and news reports.

Unrest in a prison northeast of Nashville has been contained, the sheriff says, and all prisoners returned to their cells ...

A violent prison riot erupted overnight at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Tennessee, drawing a heavy multi-agency law enforcement response. Officials said inmates took control of a prison ...

WSMV in Nashville confirmed the two guards at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville, Tennessee were held hostage ...

Two years after approving a tough-on-crime sentencing law, South Dakota is scrambling to deal with the price tag for that ...

Convicted killer and recaptured prison escapee Grant Hardin, known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” has been transferred to the ...

Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman whom the president pardoned during his first term, now advocates for inmate ...

Policymakers and criminal justice reform activists seek an audit and reevaluation of the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center.

Windy Duncan demands justice after her 74-year-old father died restrained for hours at Monroe County Justice Center.

Newark mayor Ras Baraka Tuesday sued U.S. Attorney Alina Habba for wrongful arrest and defamation over his detention last month during a protest outside an immigration jail in the New ...