A local prison had to lock down several times over the weekend. According to Commissioner John Christy, four separate fights ...

Darrell Brooks is seeking an 11th extension in his appeal, claiming a prison lockdown has made finding his case file difficult. The court ordered former attorney Michael Covey to prove Brooks received ...

WASHINGTON — The federal prison system has been placed on a nationwide lockdown after two inmates were killed and two others were injured Monday during a gang altercation at a federal penitentiary in ...

Ghislaine Maxwell ’s unexpected arrival at a cushy Texas prison this August has left other inmates unsettled, with some claiming it seems that she receives preferential treatment, according to a ...

CHESTER, Ill. (AP) - A state prison spokesman says the lockdown of Illinois' largest maximum security prison will continue "for days" after a cache of crude weapons and homemade alcohol was found ...

Lockdowns can be indistinguishable from solitary confinement-like conditions, with those incarcerated given little yard time and limited access to educational programming and commissary. Chicago ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois' most-hardened criminals are no match for COVID-19 as the virus is infecting inmates in several state prisons at a startling pace. At one state prison on Monday more than 40% ...

Nebraska State Penitentiary officials kept the prison locked down Tuesday morning, a day after dozens of inmates refused to return to their cells in protest. Thirty-three inmates wouldn’t return to ...