Elite anti-corruption squads are deployed across British prisons to tackle a surge in illicit relationships between female guards and inmates following high-profile sex scandals.

A former Harris County jail guard was sentenced to one year of deferred adjudication, months after he was indicted on misdemeanor assault charges after he was accused of beating two female inmates.

Several female inmates in Indiana have filed a federal lawsuit alleging they were attacked by male prisoners after a Clark County jail guard sold a key to their jail cells. The Washington Post reports ...

Both women say it happened in a blind spot in a dark stairwell. There — out of view of Century Regional Detention Facility's many security cameras — they claim a jailer sexually assaulted them while ...

BRIDGEPORT — State officials say an inmate physically assaulted a guard at Bridgeport Correctional Center last week, the latest in a series of recent violent instances at Connecticut prisons. The ...