West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...

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The Trump administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El ...

A violent prison with a "poor culture" has deteriorated since inspectors raised concerns three years ago, a report has said.

It’s unclear whether that experience will translate well to a system as large as the federal Bureau of Prisons. The West Virginia corrections department incarcerates about 10,000 people on a ...

Just days before the strike, Daniel Martuscello, who is the commissioner of the prison system, wrote that 70% staffing levels would be the new 100%. Prisons were already short 2,000 officers at ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WSFA) - A big priority for the state lawmakers is improving Alabama’s prison system, and a big part of ...

Tommy Middleton was accused of attempting to smuggle contraband into Fountain Correctional Facility, said a spokeswoman for the prisons system ...

Supporters of the union, which represents 30,000 prison employees, fear the move will worsen an ongoing staffing crisis.

The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is going to release some inmates early because of ongoing staffing shortages in the wake of the prison strike.