Three inmates charged in connection with a Sept. 18 stabbing attack on multiple guards at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster were arraigned Wednesday in a courtroom packed with ...

Three inmates accused in a brutal attack at a prison in central Massachusetts were brought to court Thursday to face charges.

Del. Michael Jones, D-Richmond, released a statement on Tuesday evening saying that he had conducted an unannounced tour of Red Onion State Prison in response to recent events, which include ...

A Shanghai court convicted Chen Pinlin, born in 1991, even though he had signed a plea bargain for a two-year sentence over “Urumqi Middle Road”, a video he made and posted on YouTube in 2023 ...

A crowd rallies outside of the bell tower at Virginia's Capitol on Jan. 8, 2025 to protest allegations of mistreatment of inmates and prolonged use of solitary confinement at Red Onion State Prison ...

Roughly two months after Virginia’s Department of Corrections confirmed that six inmates at Red Onion State Prison had burned themselves by tampering with electrical outlets, advocates renewed calls ...

Charlotte Rene Woods \ Virginia Mercury Roughly two months after Virginia’s Department of Corrections confirmed that six inmates at Red Onion State Prison had burned themselves by tampering with ...

And, yes, there's an email chain. Court documents revealed staffers at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison thought about charging inmates who burned themselves while staging protests of the ...

Staffers at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia weighed whether to charge the inmates “thousands of dollars for the hospital and medical treatment,” according to emails obtained through a ...

In the messages published by the news nonprofit on Wednesday, Red Onion State Prison’s chief of security suggested charging the inmates for their care after the burns, while an assistant warden ...

Internal communications between officials at Red Onion State Prison, published on Wednesday by the news site The Appeal, show that officials mused over the idea of making inmates pay for their own ...

Last year, six prisoners at Red Onion State Prison, a supermax facility on the state’s rural west side, intentionally burned themselves, prompting scrutiny of the prison from lawmakers and the public.