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It went far beyond a prisoner’s wildest dreams. For at least the past five months, authorities say, inmates at the Essex County Correctional Facility were hand-delivered drugs and cell phones by one of the men hired to guard them.

Some of New Mexico’s prisons are woefully understaffed as they struggle to recruit and keep correctional officers, according to state data and interviews.

Fifteen Atlanta corrections officers and their union representative stood outside the city jail Wednesday with a megaphone and a message: They are not safe at their place of work.

The United States Penitentiary--McCreary in Pine Knot is under lockdown after an inmate assault.

Two Parole Board officers are facing suspensions for allowing a former inmate under parole supervision to visit his original victims in Florida, according to two state officials.

Illinois prison officials charge inmates too much for cigarettes, according to a lawsuit filed by a former inmate.

A 22 year-old ACI inmate is accused of helping another inmate escape earlier this week.

A Gwinnett County deputy was treated at a hospital after an inmate allegedly beat him, Channel 2 Action News reports.

Officials say another Atlanta jail Guard has been assaulted by an inmate. 

The death of an inmate inside the Charleston County jail Wednesday has been ruled a suicide, authorities said today.