correctional officer

A new California law went into effect in January that allows prosecutors to review old cases for which the prison terms were unjustly harsh. NBC 7’s Danny Freeman brings us the story of one San Diego man whose life changed with this new law.

Colleagues, family members and friends Monday were mourning the death of a 41-year-old Montebello police officer who was found dead from a gunshot wound Sunday morning at police headquarters.

A riot involving nearly 50 inmates at Donovan Correctional Facility in the South Bay left 10 prisoners wounded Friday, including one so severely that he had to be life-flighted from the prison, officials confirmed.

A correctional officer told NBC 7’s Danny Freeman that he’s worried he’ll be in the same position he was yesterday three weeks from now.

An Encanto Marine veteran has continued to feel the consequences of the ongoing government shutdown as it reached day 33 Wednesday.

Plans to open a state parole office near a high school in a La Mesa neighborhood are no longer on the table, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said.

Dozens of La Mesa residents filled Tuesday night’s City Council meeting to ask city leaders to support their fight against a parole office opening up in their community.

An independent review ordered by Delaware’s governor after a deadly inmate riot describes the state’s maximum-security prison as dangerously overcrowded, critically understaffed, and poorly run and managed. According to the preliminary report, prison workers consider communication to be the top problem at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center. The report released Friday portrays stressed-out correctional officers as not knowing what is...

A Kane County Jail inmate who took a hostage at Delnor Hospital in suburban Geneva was fatally shot during the hourslong incident Saturday, officials said.

An insiders’ account of the deadly Delaware prison uprising. NBC10’s Drew Smith talks to two mothers of prisoners who talk about what their sons say happened inside the walls during the day-long stand-off at James T Vaughn Correctional Center.

Following a deadly hostage situation inside Delaware’s largest prison, questions are being raised about proper staffing. NBC10’s Keith Jones reports.

Nearly 20 guards in Maryland’s largest state prison conspired with inmates and people on the outside to sneak drugs, pornography and cellphones into the facility, federal prosecutors charge.

A former New Jersey corrections officer has been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman who was detained in a cell under his supervision.

The inmate who was badly burned inside his cell when a South Florida correctional officer threw scalding hot water on him said finally there’s justice.

NBC Bay Area has learned a correctional officer at Elmwood Correctional Jail Facility in Milpitas was severely beaten on Christmas Eve by a group of inmates who are all suspected gang members.