Seven months after Texas saw one of the nation’s deadliest prison escapes, investigations into what went wrong have come back to one factor: The state’s lockups are dangerously short-staffed. On May ...

It sounded like something out of a movie: Ten inmates at a New Orleans jail surreptitiously cut through cell walls using electric hair trimmers before fleeing into the dead of night when an employee ...

The employees unwittingly helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief, walk out of a prison in May, dressed in a fake law enforcement uniform, officials said. By Michael Levenson Two Arkansas prison ...