NEW YORK (AP) — The leader of a violent Ecuadorian gang has been indicted in New York City on charges he imported thousands of pounds of cocaine into the United States, federal prosecutors said ...

A Montgomery County Jail inmate was hit with additional charges after police say he was in possession of fentanyl inside his ...

New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers.

Plea deals have been extended to the 10 New York state prison guards indicted in the fatal beating of an inmate three months ...

Plea offers have been sent to 10 prison employees accused in the fatal beating of a Utica-area inmate late last year.

A grand jury is set to begin hearing evidence next week regarding the death of an inmate last month at a Central New York prison, officials said. The grand jury will get the case April 9 in Oneida ...

Marcy, N.Y. — An inmate has filed a lawsuit alleging that corrections officers beat him last fall in a Central New York prison ... officers only identified as John Does. Two of the guards ...

SOCORRO, N.M. – A man was awarded a $2 million settlement in federal court because of how he was treated inside the Socorro County Detention Center. Jessie Chavez suffers from severe mental illness.

After the chaos of the 21-day wildcat prison guard strike, New York State investigators are looking into a supposed inmate petition circulated at Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo ...

SOCORRO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – A former inmate is getting a multi-million-dollar payout after he said he was held in a New Mexico county jail cell for days without food and water. Jessie Chavez ...

The New York Yankees, the closest thing to a pennant ... absorb in losing the seemingly superhuman Gerrit Cole to Tommy John surgery. Cole will be back – probably not until fairly deep into ...

Four sheriff’s deputies at Men’s Central Jail were attacked Sunday by a group of inmates armed with a shank, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials and two sources ...