A Unity man is accused by police of attacking guards at the Westmoreland County Prison during a search of his cell for communication with a nurse at the Hempfield facility. Jerome W. Thornton, 33, was ...

A pair of prison guards in Texas were arrested and charged with negligent homicide after police said they did nothing to remove an inmate from a burning cell, resulting in his death. Lieutenant ...

Two Texas prison guards, Lieutenant William Eugene Romero and Sergeant Crystal Janelle West, 33 and 39, respectively, are accused of leaving an inmate to die while locked inside a burning jail cell.

A Fresno man, who was already serving time in a northern California prison, allegedly attempted to kill a correctional officer with an improvised weapon, according to the California Department of ...