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Private, for-profit prisons have been plagued by controversy in Kentucky and elsewhere around the country

Incident reviews and quality assurance can help prevent a problem from becoming a serious incident in a correctional facility

Texas prisons are shedding officers with a staggering 28 percent turnover rate in the last fiscal year

Justin Tran, 32, was charged with aggravated assault on a CO after breaking the officer’s nose in five places

Luis Guzman, 28, was arrested after he reportedly threw feces at a passing CO and an inmate who was being escorted by the officer

Joseph Tyree said his concern is that shortages of COs could spark an incident that will result in lawsuits

Investigators said CO Steven Arvallo was shot and killed by a neighbor after an argument

The court will not hear the case involving inmate Keighton Budder, who was convicted of rape and received three consecutive life sentences plus 20 years

Firefighters took almost two hours to remove the bags of trash and free the man from the truck’s compactor section

The court will hear arguments by inmate Timothy Carpenter, who was convicted for armed robbery after police used phone data to track him down