After serving multiple prison sentences and battling drug addiction for years, Ginny Burton made a decision that completely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Georgia Department of Corrections says 12 inmates are now facing charges in connection with a deadly riot at Washington State ...

The Washington State Department of Corrections manages 10 prisons across the state. These correctional facilities house inmates serving sentences after being convicted to murder, rape, theft, fraud ...

In the newly released audio, prison staff can be heard urgently calling for ambulances and reporting multiple inmates had been stabbed. “We have an inmate that has been stabbed and we need an ...

MACON, Ga. — Another inmate who was involved in the riot at the Washington State Prison last weekend has died. Washington County Coroner Mark Hodges confirmed on Saturday that another offender ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday launched an investigation into Washington state’s practice of housing transgender women in its women’s prison. In a letter to Gov. Bob Ferguson, the U.S. Department ...

OLYMPIA — Washington farm groups are lobbying against legislation that threatens to imprison people for environmental violations such as manure running off fields into water. A person already can ...

Every month at the Washington State Penitentiary, a group of incarcerated journalists meets up to pick a theme for their news magazine. The paper is called Top of the Mountain. It details the goings ...