A “small riot on the yard” at Spring Creek Correctional Center cost the Alaska Department of Corrections just under $200,000 ...

Staff errors were at the root of a June riot at the Trousdale Turner Correction Facility, which is operated by private prison company CoreCivic, said state Corrections Commissioner Frank Strada.

A violent prison riot erupted overnight at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Tennessee, drawing a heavy multi-agency law enforcement response. Officials said inmates took control of a prison ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California State Prison, Sacramento, once known as New Folsom, was opened in 1986 and is adjacent to Folsom State Prison, ...

DAVISBORO, Ga. (WJBF) – A prison riot over the weekend has left three inmates dead and more than a dozen hospitalized. The reported riot happened Sunday afternoon around 1 p.m. here at the Washington ...

HARTSVILLE, Tenn. - District Attorney Jason Lawson of Tennessee’s 15th Judicial District announced 12 inmates have been charged for their role in a riot at the state’s largest prison earlier in June.

The Department of Corrections initiated a lockdown on Friday, following a riot involving several pre-trial detainees housed ...

It has been 46 years since one of the deadliest prison riots in U.S. history. It all happened here in New Mexico.

TROUSDALE COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — As part of a “new operational structure,” the Tennessee Department of Correction said that some inmates at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center would be transferred to ...

A bloody melee in a maximum-security prison in South Carolina raged for more than four hours Sunday night before guards moved in to stop it, state officials said Monday. In the end, no prison guards ...

MONTPELIER – As many as 15 Vermont inmates could be indicted by a Kentucky grand jury later this month for crimes relating to their involvement in instigating a riot at their prison. The Kentucky ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Four inmates died and more than 30 others were injured Sunday when a riot broke out at a prison in Ecuador, corrections officials in the South American country said. The riot ...