Chase Noah Henderson, 24, of Kennesaw, is accused of escape and battery on another inmate at the Cobb County Adult Detention ...

As state legislators work to craft complex and costly plans to fix Georgia’s troubled prison system, they may face an extra challenge: Conditions inside the wire appear to be getting even worse.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Nicholas Grindle, a prison guard in Georgia, was jailed after smuggling meth into the prison where he worked - and condemned ...

Former Hays State Prison guard Nicholas Grindle was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess ...

I can’t, you know, tell the story until I have all the evidence and it goes through the proper process,” said Sheriff David ...

The state House backed a revised $40.5 billion spending plan for this year that sets aside hundreds of millions of dollars ...

A man convicted of killing three people in Upatoi in 2016 is now facing charges for allegedly attacking a prison officer.

Republicans in the Georgia Senate have advanced a proposal that would force the city of Atlanta to house Fulton County inmates at the city's jail. The Fulton County Commission has floated the idea ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, Ga. — Two inmates died on Thursday at the Hancock State Prison, according to the Georgia Department of ...

A man wanted out of Georgia was arrested in Marlboro County on Friday afternoon. Deputies arrested a man on a fugitive who had been staying at a home off Railroad Avenue in the McColl community of ...

The Georgia Department of Corrections said in a release that one was uninjured and died due to something medically-related. They said the other one did have injuries and added a third inmate was ...