CRANSTON – The locks on some prison cell doors in Maximum Security at the Adult Correctional Institutions are malfunctioning, “a real significant problem,” says the head of the correctional officers’ ...

A man who police say was held captive 24 hours a day and forced to urinate in bottles for two decades was rescued after he ...

An investigation is underway into the death of a Montgomery County Jail inmate after two struggles with jail staff and reportedly ramming his head into a cell door.

In 1996, a correctional officer testified that the new jail’s doors were “inadequate to provide security.” Nearly three decades later, U.S. District Court Judge Carlton W. Reeves wrote, cell doors did ...

Crayman Harvey took over the jail during one of its lowest periods following the death of detainee Lason Butler by dehydration and sought to lend stability to the troubled facility.

Conditions at the Cleveland County Detention Center surfaced in a hearing Wednesday afternoon at the Cleveland County Courthouse. “This is a disaster waiting to happen,” attorney James Radford said in ...