Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cheshire Correctional Institution in a file photo. (Contributed photo — Connecticut Department of Correction ) CHESHIRE - An ...

French police fired tear gas to break up a picket line of striking prison guards at Europe’s biggest jail on Friday, as a fresh assault by inmates on staff at a facility in Corsica fuelled demands for ...

Francisco Izayas Castillo, a former jail guard in Santa Clara County, California, was sentenced to 45 days in jail after a jury convicted him of misdemeanor battery in March. The charge stemmed from a ...

A string of assaults on prison guards prompted a second day of strikes at jails across France on Tuesday, casting a spotlight on security problems and radicalisation inside French facilities. Three ...

A Santa Clara County correctional officer will spend more than a month behind bars after helping two inmates carry out a jailhouse attack against another inmate, then conspiring with them to cover it ...

Two Mid-State Corrections officers were injured after an inmate allegedly attacked staff during a wellness check.