SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Prison officials are investigating after an inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem died, Tuesday.

A Eugene man was sentenced to federal prison after investigators found a hidden camera concealed in the screw hole of the ...

Lawyers for the prisoner alleged his eye “slowly, painfully died inside his head” after “botched eye surgery.” ...

The letter offers a rare first-hand account from a physician regarding the conditions inside Oregon ... prison health services. Together, Roberts and Bugher oversaw medical care for the state ...

Josh Shapiro’s administration recommended the closure of Rockview state prison, a 110-year-old facility that employs hundreds. It appears Shapiro’s administration began notifying stakeholders ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration has recommended the closure of Rockview State Prison and the Quehanna Boot Camp- both located in central Pennsylvania. The administration ...

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A big rally Saturday outside Vermont’s only women’s prison. State officials are looking to build a new facility but some believe prison’s are not the answer.

The yellow glare from prison floodlights obscures the camera’s view as it bobs along, following a state prison guard as he jogs toward a scrum of fellow officers grappling with an inmate along a ...

She is flanked by the prison’s former acting superintendent, Danielle Medbury, who was removed from the position by Hochul, and state corrections Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello III.

The Department of Corrections also announced the closure of two state-run Community Corrections Centers: Wernersville CCC in Berks County and Progress CCC in Waynesburg, Greene County. Officials ...

An inmate at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center near Otay Mesa allegedly attacked an officer with an “improvised weapon” on Sunday evening, state corrections officials said. Nelson Barrera ...

It hasn’t stopped crime,” said Kat Brady, coordinator of the Community Alliance on Prisons. OCCC is the state’s largest jail with an original design capacity of 628 beds and an operational ...