Inmate

Transgender activist and former teacher Dana Rivers, a biological male who first appeared on ABC’s 2020 more than 20 years ago, is sentenced to life in a women’s prison after brutally murdering a lesbian couple and their adopted son. 

A Virginia inmate was honored Tuesday with a Citizen’s Service Award after saving a deputy who was choking on his food.

A Georgia inmate is accused of stealing millions of dollars from a billionaire Hollywood producer to purchase gold coins and a $4.4 million home in Atlanta.

An escaped inmate who traveled a long way from Connecticut only to be caught at his own birthday party in Georgia on Saturday is being housed at the Henry County jail.

A corrections director with an Alabama sheriff’s office and an inmate – charged with capital murder – went missing Friday morning. 

An inmate in Washington state has been sentenced to an additional 25 years behind bars for murdering his cellmate, the convicted sex offender who raped his sister.

A former correctional officer in Fresno County received a sentence Tuesday of two years probation and seven months behind bars for having sex with an inmate.

An inmate from a Georgia jail is on the run after reportedly escaping the Telfair County Jail yard on Friday afternoon.

A 26-year-old jail inmate caught a lucky break when a judge freed him earlier this year due to the coronavirus.

A Rikers Island inmate who was caught after attempting to escape last Thursday tried again Sunday and did not succeed.

An inmate at an Indiana jail severed part of his finger and mailed it to a local newspaper to protest the conditions of that jail.

Former Rep. Corinne Brown (D-FL), the ex-lawmaker serving a five-year prison sentence for crimes involving fraud and corruption, was released from federal prison on Wednesday over coronavirus-related concerns.

A prison inmate recently confessed to murdering two convicted child molesters at a prison in Corcoran, California, in January.

A former teacher who worked out of a youth detention center is accused of having a sexual relationship with a juvenile inmate.

An inmate serving life in an Oklahoma prison for murdering an eight-year-old was found dead in his cell Friday, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections said.

Avril Richardson has been charged with second-degree sexual assault for her sexual relationship with an inmate at Northern State Prison.

A transgender inmate is suing Indiana’s prison system for denying his requests to undergo hormone therapy.

A female prison worker has been caught having sex with an inmate at a New York state prison where a prison employee helped two high-profile murderers escape two years ago, authorities said.

The family of an inmate who died in Milwaukee County Jail reportedly named Sheriff David Clarke and Milwaukee County as defendants in a civil rights lawsuit filed Monday.

A Bexar County, Texas, inmate has been found dead in his jail cell. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of the inmate in the Bexar County Adult Detention Center.

Activist immigration groups are firing racial profiling allegations against Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell.

$100,000. That’s the prison’s estimated cost of the sex change operation California inmate Michelle-Lael Norsworthy demanded and was scheduled to receive in July before a Thursday court order delayed the first ever prison-paid procedure of its kind in California. But even if he’s released on parole, the taxpayers could still have the privilege of picking up the tab under Medi-Cal, says one bay area legal director.

On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco ruled that California’s corrections department must pay for an inmate’s sex change surgery, establishing a new precedent as no operation for an inmate has ever been ordered in the state.