(AP) — A plan to build a 3,000-inmate prison in Arkansas hit a roadblock in the state Senate on Tuesday, while the Alabama Legislature gave final approval to ensure funding for another mega-prison.

Maryland State Police investigators are on the case of the death of a state prison inmate at Somerset County's Eastern Correctional Institute in Westover. Here's what we know now. The inmate is ...

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN EITHER DEATH. THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IS NOW INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF AN INMATE AT CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON, SACRAMENTO, AS A HOMICIDE. THE DEATH WAS FIRST ...