Officers told the wrong family about the death of an inmate at a maximum security prison. The error emerged in a Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) investigation ...

Concerns have been raised about a prison's ability to deal with drugs after the death of an inmate from a psychoactive substance. Derrion Adams died on 31 October 2024 and a coroner who looked into ...

Failures by staff might have contributed to the death of a vulnerable prisoner who took his own life on his first night at HMP Hewell, an inquest jury has concluded. Mesut Olgun died in June 2018, six ...

A coroner has called for action following a prisoner's death at HMP High Down after an inmate said it was easier to get drugs or a mobile phone at the prison than sugar. Oliver Mulangala, 40, was ...

An inmate in a Tucson prison died Aug. 9 under unknown circumstances, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry. Elmer Shields, 32, died at the Arizona State Prison ...

A criminal charge against a former correctional sergeant at Waupun Correctional Institution in connection with a prisoner's death was dismissed Sept. 15. Alexander Hollfelder was among seven staff ...

Maryland State Police are investigating a state prison inmate death at Jessup Correctional Institution, officials announced Sunday.

Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a state prison inmate who, last year, was accused of stabbing a correctional officer at a Hagerstown-area prison. State police, in a Sept. 29 news ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The in-custody death of an inmate at the Englewood Federal Correctional Institution on Wednesday is under investigation, according to prison officials.

PLAINFIELD, Ind. — More than a year after an inmate at the Plainfield Correctional Facility was beaten to death in his cell, the Hendricks County Prosecutor filed charges this week against a fellow ...