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 ...

When Alan Lancaster died in January 2023 at South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, his family went looking for answers. The Missouri Department of Corrections recorded his death as an ...

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 ...

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.

An inmate died in Rush City prison this week after an apparent fight with his new cellmate, authorities said. Correctional officers found the man unresponsive with “obvious injuries” after receiving a ...

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 ...