EXCLUSIVE REPORT The Journal-News examined state records and pored over reports on Ohio’s prison system to bring you this exclusive story. Serious assaults on the roughly 12,000 staff members working ...

Such allegations are spiking and the Justice Department is failing to implement key reforms meant to institute a zero-tolerance policy toward prison rape, GAO finds.

The state corrections department reports that serious assaults on prison staffers are up, and a union says more corrections officers are needed. Incidents resulting in serious injuries to prison staff ...

Watchdog says key services are affected at the East Yorkshire jail, but assaults on staff are down.

Amid a continued rise in prison assaults, the Michigan Department of Corrections this month launched a new "safe prisons initiative" that aims to improve conditions for inmates and officers alike.

Multiple staff members at the Springhill Institution, a medium-security federal prison in Nova Scotia, were assaulted by an inmate on the weekend and treated in hospital.

Amid a continued rise in prison assaults, the Michigan Department of Corrections this month launched a new “safe prisons initiative” that aims to improve conditions for inmates and officers alike.