Fox was arrested on the charge in September after an investigation by Kentucky State Police into alleged sexual conduct with an inmate at the Eddyville prison.

A bill in the Kentucky legislature would require the state's prisons to designate bathrooms, sleeping quarters and other areas by biological sex.

Residents of Roxana, Kentucky, are battling it out over whether to transform a piece of land, which formerly housed a strip mine, into a federal penitentiary or to rewild it and let the bison roam ...

The Boone County Detention Center holds people detained for ICE. Civil rights investigators have found deficiencies in the ...

A 63-acre purchase by a local land restoration group in eastern Kentucky could potentially delay the building of a proposed $500 million federal prison. The plot is located in a critical portion of a ...

Josh Shapiro’s administration recommended the closure of Rockview state prison, a 110-year-old facility that employs hundreds. It appears Shapiro’s administration began notifying stakeholders ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration has recommended the closure of Rockview State Prison and the Quehanna Boot Camp- both located in central Pennsylvania. The administration ...

She is flanked by the prison’s former acting superintendent, Danielle Medbury, who was removed from the position by Hochul, and state corrections Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello III.

The yellow glare from prison floodlights obscures the camera’s view as it bobs along, following a state prison guard as he jogs toward a scrum of fellow officers grappling with an inmate along a ...

The Department of Corrections also announced the closure of two state-run Community Corrections Centers: Wernersville CCC in Berks County and Progress CCC in Waynesburg, Greene County. Officials ...

An inmate at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center near Otay Mesa allegedly attacked an officer with an “improvised weapon” on Sunday evening, state corrections officials said. Nelson Barrera ...