A 54-year-old inmate died Wednesday at a Lincoln corrections facility, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said.

The commissioner of the state's prison system said he would meet some of the demands of striking prison guards, including the ability to relax some of the recent changes to rules regarding putting ...

Donald Wakefield, who was serving a sentence of seven to 10 years out of Sarpy County for fourth offense driving under the ...

Edgewater PD: Department of Corrections employee tries to set house on fire, attacks family Starmer backs Zelensky after ...

Rep. Jared Bauman said the information can help the state better understand how to stop repeat offenders from going back to ...

The Kentucky Senate has passed Senate Bill 2 (SB 2), a priority piece of legislation sponsored by Senate Majority Whip Mike ...

Democratic opponents on Tuesday called the bill “unconstitutional,” the result of “witch hunt” and “fear-mongering” against ...

A woman has been arrested and charged in what police are calling a "major cocaine trafficking" investigation in Jeffersontown ...

The Courier Journal gathered internal policies that govern some Jefferson County law enforcement agencies' interactions with ...

For those inmates, the current recidivism rate is 30.81%, which is 1.6% lower than the prior year. Kentucky defines ...

The Department of Corrections has testified before that no gender reassignment surgery is being performed for people in Kentucky jails.