The head of a commercial real estate investment firm has been sentenced to 87 months in prison and ordered to pay $45 million in restitution in a fraud scheme involving the Atlanta Financial Center in Buckhead.

State prisons chief Tyrone Oliver asked Georgia lawmakers Monday for $10.4 million to hire an additional 330 correctional officers during this fiscal year to staff a prisons system the U.S. Justice Department harshly criticized in an audit last fall.

Georgia Department of Corrections officials began laying the groundwork Wednesday for an infusion of state funding to beef up staffing, replace aging infrastructure, and improve inmate health care.

The Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York held its first-ever film festival recently, with incarcerated men invited to judge the five entries.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was back to hosting his daily podcast "War Room" just hours after his release from federal prison.

A new trove of letters and oral histories is shining a light on the successes and challenges of jailhouse lawyers: people in prison who help themselves and others navigate the legal system.

Lewisburg federal prison, a facility located in central Pennsylvania where thousands of inmates often pass through on their way to other federal institutions, was found to have problems with addressing mental health risks, healthcare quality, leaking infrastructure and employee conduct.

Cobb County Schools bans 13 more books from its libraries. 

Mpox is detected in a Georgia Prison.

Usher, citing neck injury, reschedules Atlanta shows for December.

Women from Georgia spoke about their experiences being pregnant and giving birth while incarcerated at Sen. Jon Ossoff’s  Atlanta hearing of the Senate Committee on Human Rights.

According to the complaint, prison staff were warned that morning about the heat and told not to leave inmates outside too long, or without water.

This is the second time health care provider Wellpath’s lawsuit has been dismissed. 

Officials say an inmate used a gun to kill a kitchen worker at a Georgia prison before fatally shooting himself. The Georgia Department of Corrections says it's investigating the killing early Sunday at Smith State Prison. Few details were released, including how the inmate obtained a firearm.

Legislation establishing oversight of the federal prison system sponsored by U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Marietta, has cleared the U.S. House of Representatives. 

A new lawsuit alleges widespread sexual abuse of juveniles took place over decades at Illinois youth detention facilities. Similar lawsuits have been filed this year in other states.

Authorities say a Georgia prison guard shot and killed a prisoner she had escorted to a hospital for treatment after he snatched another guard's pepper spray and used it to overpower him.