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A female inmate was found dead early Saturday at the Webb County Jail, according to...

Ernest Johnson was executed despite pleas from Pope Francis and other advocates.

Authorities have released footage from on board the bus that was transporting an inmate who escaped in the area of Ellington Airport Tuesday.

Body camera footage first obtained by the Associated Press shows a White police officer violently arresting a Black man following a traffic stop in 2019. The Louisiana State Police are now being investigated for a potential pattern of coverups.

A Texas inmate has been executed for an attack that killed his pregnant wife, 5-year-old daughter and father-in-law more than a decade ago.

The Texas Rangers are investigating an inmate death that occurred at the Nueces County Jail over the weekend.

About 300 inmates in a prison near the Moroccan capital have been vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of what authorities say is a commitment to protect a population considered especially vulnerable

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the court was going back on a promise to allow inmates to propose alternative methods when a state’s procedure might cause excruciating pain.

A former supervisory correctional officer at the Valdosta State Prison (VSP) in Valdosta, Georgia, pleaded guilty today to violating the civil rights of two inmates during two separate incidents. According to court documents and admissions made during the hearing, on Sept. 24, 2018, Patrick Sharpe, 30, while on duty as a correctional officer at VSP, assaulted a handcuffed inmate in retaliation for an earlier interaction between the inmate and a female officer. As a result of the assault, the inmate briefly lost consciousness and suffered lacerations to his face and head. In the second incident, on Dec. 29, 2018, Sharpe, while on duty as a supervisory correctional officer at VSP, instructed his subordinate officers to assault a handcuffed inmate in retaliation for an earlier altercation between that inmate and a different female officer. “The defendants committed two retaliatory, injurious, and unjustified assaults while acting as a corrections officer,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Pamela S. Karlan of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

HOUSTON – An inmate at the Harris County Jail was found unresponsive in his cell over the weekend, officials said. Court records show the robbery charge was dismissed and then refiled as the burglary charge. The burglary charge was dismissed following Jacobs’ death. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office has asked the Texas Rangers to investigate Jacobs’ death. The Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office has not yet determined a cause of death.