3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (366+ words) A former Alabama prison officer is one of two people charged in connection with the 2025 stabbing death at William Donaldson Correctional Facility in Montgomery. BESSEMER, Ala. — A former state prison officer is one of two men charged in connection with…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (869+ words) By Jason HenryLos Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into whether conditions inside Los Angeles County’s notoriously decrepit Men’s Central Jail violate the Constitution and federal law. The investigation will focus on…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (147+ words) National September 11 Memorial & Museum/Facebook NEW YORK — The 9/11 Memorial & Museum will add a seventh moment of silence to its annual Sept. 11 commemoration to honor those who have died from 9/11-related illnesses. For the past 24 years, the ceremony has included six…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (461+ words) NEW YORK — The names of three New York City correction captains who died from illnesses linked to their work after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have been added to the department’s memorial on Rikers Island. Capts. Jacqueline Payden, Raul Gonzalez and…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1718+ words) Ash fell like snow as New York City correction officers marched toward Ground Zero, where heat radiated from the pile of twisted steel and concrete left by the collapse of the Twin Towers. The sound of firefighters’ distress alarms pierced…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (323+ words) By Justin StrawserThe Daily Item, Sunbury, Pa. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — An inmate incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary in Allenwood for stabbing a cellmate in Arizona threatened to assault and murder multiple employees of the federal Bureau of Prisons, according to…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (258+ words) NEW YORK — Three correction officers and a correction captain were injured when an inmate attacked them inside a clinic at Rikers Island, officials said. The attack happened on Sept. 5 at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center. The Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (1502+ words) Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department By Jason HenryLos Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES — Staff inside Los Angeles County’s jails performed safety checks to an “exemplary” standard while their supervisors were watching, but those standards plummeted when their bosses weren’t around,…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (674+ words) A drawer with prescription medicine for inmates of Laurel County Correctional Center on a movable cart located within one of several medical rooms. October 29, 2024. LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky Department of Corrections has outlined medical costs that the department will and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (289+ words) CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County and MetroHealth agreed to pay a combined $100,000 settlement to the family of a county jail inmate who died from a drug overdose, according to probate court records. The lawsuit accused county jail officials and MetroHealth of…...