A 33-year-old federal inmate’s death by gunfire has exposed troubling questions about safety protocols and transparency within America’s prison system, leaving his devastated family searching for ...

Sweat "acted like he knew [Mitchell] for years," former inmate says. — -- As both a prison employee and a corrections officer face charges for allegedly helping convicted murderers Richard Matt ...

Utica, N.Y. — A Central New York corrections officer was sentenced in Utica to prison Monday, the first guard who admitted beating an inmate who died last year. Christopher Walrath, 36, was sentenced ...