In a shift that has those in management in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation taking notice, it was decided that the 16-week state prisoner officer academy would be shortened ...

A corrections officer bends down to talk to a prisoner in a maximum-security cell in North Dakota. Late last summer, Rodney Miller, the executive director of the West Virginia Sheriffs’ Association ...

Long before a riot left seven inmates dead at Lee Correctional Institution early Monday, state officials knew they didn't have enough staff to secure South Carolina's prisons. Last month, inmates at ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida Department of Corrections officer who had only been on the job for less than three months died during a training exercise, officials said. Officials with FDOC said ...

LUDLOW — Do not call John Hale a guard. Hale is a correctional officer at the Hampden County Correctional Center in Ludlow and has been for 22 years. And if you slip up in conversation and call him a ...

Bernie Warner, head of the state Department of Corrections (DOC), is stepping down. Warner, who has led Corrections since July 2011, will be leaving on Oct. 16 to work for a private corrections and ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections is not off to a good start on its plan to slash the number of open correctional officer jobs by two-thirds this fiscal year. To do so, the agency has proposed ...

One in every three correctional officer jobs is vacant at the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice even though lawmakers put more than $64 million a year into the current state budget in part to ...

CARSON CITY -- Despite Nevada's highest-in-the-nation 12.6 percent unemployment rate, the state Department of Corrections has 200 correctional officer vacancies. Deputy Director Sheryl Foster told the ...

Nearly one-third of federal correctional officer jobs in the United States are vacant, forcing prisons to use cooks, teachers, nurses and other workers to guard inmates. At a federal penitentiary in ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- There is new leadership at the Philadelphia Department of Prisons. Michael Resnick was formally introduced as the new commissioner by Mayor Cherelle Parker on Wednesday afternoon ...