The Oklahoma Department of Corrections announced millions of dollars in contraband was seized during 2025, but local jail officials said illicit items aren’t so much of a problem at the Cherokee ...

Mobile phones and contraband continue to plague Westgate Correctional Facility, including in maximum security cells, documents detailing seizures at the facility show. Other common unauthorised ...

Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are ...

David Ware was sentenced to death in 2022 for shooting and killing a Tulsa Police Sergeant and shooting another officer in the head during a traffic stop. Ware has recently been rehoused to a maximum ...

This week, authorities have also arrested three guards and a prison nurse, but haven't said if they are connected to the ...

Iberville Parish Sheriff Brett Stassi is reacting following the arrests of four people at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center over ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – Using drones, slingshot devices and bow and arrows to shoot contraband into a federal prison, it’s a practice that one bill in the West Virginia Senate hopes to stop.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is leading a 23-state coalition urging the Federal Communications Commission to allow states to use jamming technology to block contraband cell phones inside ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Tennessee Department of Correction has made progress in reducing contraband in state prisons, officials said drones that ...

Former federal prison officer Ashley Brown pleads guilty to accepting $80,000 in bribes for smuggling contraband into FCI Jesup.

It was late September 2023 when correctional officers discovered four tennis balls wrapped together with electric tape, which appeared to have been thrown over the fence of the Fort Frances Jail in ...