Georgia's incarceration rate is higher than the national average, with nearly 900 out of every 100,000 residents having spent time behind bars, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. For many, the ...

Fighting that broke out at a Georgia state prison over the weekend left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 more inmates, the Georgia Department of Corrections said Monday. The ...

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Anyone who has followed the devastating violence in California’s prisons knows that gang rivalries trigger a lot of the bloodshed. So it stood to reason that if the authorities could get members to ...

Utica, N.Y. ― A former supervisor from the Marcy Correctional Facility admitted Wednesday that guards had falsified other use-of-force reports before the fatal beating of Robert Brooks. Glenn Trombly, ...