| Sep 23 | Calif. county breaks ground on new corrections complex The multiple phase $77M project includes housing renovations, a new intake and booking facility, and staff locker rooms and meeting facilities |
| Sep 23 | Corrections history: Inmate escape from a Pa. county jail in 1892 A convicted rapist walked away, with three weeks left in his 9-month sentence, after he was sent outside to close the iron gates |
| Sep 22 | Pay raises increase Ala. state prison staffing State DoC commissioner tells lawmakers having enough COs is the key to stopping violence and managing rehabilitation programs |
| Sep 22 | Okla. man executed for 1996 rape, murder Anthony Sanchez, 44, pronounced dead after a three-drug lethal injection, is the third man put to death in Oklahoma this year |
| Sep 21 | Pa. county prison to fully enclose exercise yards after Cavalcante'... The prison board approved the up to $3.5 million project to add walls and a roof to Chester County prison's eight exercise yards |
| Sep 21 | Nev. COs work thousands of hours of overtime Consultant's report says on dozens of occasions Henderson Jail COs have worked two weeks or longer without a day off |
| Sep 21 | New Orleans jail supervisors stage walkout after inmates fling fece... Low staffing, high inmate population are leading to fights, fires and other disciplinary problems in the Orleans Justice Center |
| Sep 21 | Sheriff supports 9 indicted Tenn. jail deputies Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner defended the action of the deputies to restrain a psychotic inmate and says he will be “the first one to donate” to any legal fee fundraisers |
| Sep 20 | Cellmate kills Texas prisoner accused of murdering 22 older women Billy Chemirmir, 50, convicted of killing two women and accused of killing 20 others, was serving a life sentence |
| Sep 20 | Pa. warden apologizes for Cavalcante escape, proposes new security ... Howard Holland, acting warden of Chester County Prison, proposed new fencing, ankle monitors for high-risk inmates, more cameras in the facility and establishing a K-9 unit to enhance security |