Kopp was serving a sentence of 120 to 300 months for second-degree murder, the department said. The Review-Journal previously reported that, according to police, Kopp confessed in a 911 call to ...

A high-profile inmate escape, the resignation of the prisons director, and reports that fences, doors and windows were ...

A Nevada death row inmate is requesting a court hearing, pursuing what federal public defenders say is his right to the clemency process.

A judge on Tuesday dismissed only part of a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the Nevada Department of Corrections alleging that the death of an inmate who was beaten before being found ...

Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Montana State Prison (MSP), located in the Deer ...

Convicted of coercion, Dorotiak was transferred to NDOC custody in September last year to serve up to six years at High Desert State Prison near Indian Springs. It's unclear when he was stabbed or ...

Brooks died the next day. His family is now suing more than a dozen guards, the former head of the facility and a state corrections official. They say the prison used excessive force in a system ...

An inmate was stabbed and killed inside High Desert State Prison, Nevada’s maximum-security facility northwest of Las Vegas. On Jan. 5, Brandon Hanson was pronounced dead at the prison.

Former Arkansas Rep. Grant Hodges has been appointed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to serve on the state Board of Corrections. Hodges, 34, will replace outgoing board member Tyrone Broomfield ...

Several men incarcerated at the medium-security state prison in Chillicothe told The Marshall Project - Cleveland that correctional staff, joined by a tactical unit with no body cameras, have ...