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June 21, 2017 - Fox News The six Georgia inmates who jumped into action and saved the life of a deputy who passed out will get a reward of shorter sentences, the sheriff said Tuesday. "Anytime we have a trustee or inmate crew, that goes beyond normal duties,...

BY JULIE K. BROWN Six corrections officers and an inmate were injured in a gang riot at Gulf Correctional Institution in Florida’s Panhandle Wednesday morning, officials said. The uprising happened about 8 a.m. and spread across several dorms before it was brough...

LAS VEGAS -- Imprisoned former football star O.J. Simpson has a July 20 parole hearing that could have him released from a Nevada prison on Oct. 1, a state parole official said. Simpson, who turns 70 on July 9, has served more than eight years of a nine- to 33-year sentence...

Rapper Juvenile performs with Manny Fresh at Congo Square during the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Sunday, May 2, 2010 (Photo by Keith Marszalek / NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)(Keith I. Marszalek) By Doug Maccash   New Orleans rap star Juven...

By Gracie Carr - June 19, 2017 Inmates increasingly use drones to smuggle anything from cell phones to weapons into jails across the country, according to Department of Justice (DOJ) documents released in mid-June. The documents, obtained through the Freedom of I...

$15 for 15 Minutes: How courts are letting prison phone companies gouge incarcerated people and their families Prison inmates make one of their daily allotment of six phone calls at the York Community Reintegration Center on May 24, 2016 in Niantic, Connecticut. By Victoria ...

Fugitive inmates surrendered without a wordPatrick Hale speaks to reporters in Murfreesboro, TN, while his wife, Danielle, looks on.  June 16, 2017 SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The man credited by law enforcement with holding two Georgia prison escapees at gunpoint until police...

Judges vacate intrastate caps after FCC Chair dropped court defense. June 14, 2017 WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court today struck down price caps on intrastate phone calls made by prisoners. Inmates will thus have to continue paying high prices to make phone c...

Correctional Officers Christopher Monica and Curtis Billue tragically killed This photo combo shows an undated photo by the Georgia Department of Corrections Tuesday, June 13, 2017, shows inmate Ricky Dubose, left, and Donnie Russell Rowe. Authorities say Dubose and Rowe es...