Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Georgia state senators voted unanimously to create a study committee aimed at researching and finding solutions to safety problems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A correctional officer at a southeast Georgia prison was killed after he was assaulted with a "homemade weapon" by an inmate, ...

A new Georgia bill would make it illegal to fly drones or other unmanned aircraft over state prisons and jails — responding to contraband deliveries that prison officials say largely can't be stopped ...

The Augusta State Medical Prison inmate, who confessed to his 2000 crime in prison in 2007, died of natural causes at 86, the Georgia Department of Corrections says.

ATLANTA(AP) — Fighting that broke out at a Georgia state prison over the weekend left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 more inmates, the Georgia Department of Corrections ...

HABERSHAM COUNTY, Ga. - A lieutenant from the Georgia Department of Corrections, stationed at Lee Arrendale State Prison in Alto, was arrested May 1. Russell Edwin Clark, a resident of Alto, faces ...

Derwin Brown was shot outside his home just days before he was to take office as the new DeKalb County sheriff.

A correctional officer at a southeast Georgia prison was killed after he was assaulted with a "homemade weapon" by an inmate, state officials said Sunday. Robert Clark, 42, died at a hospital after an ...

ATLANTA — Georgia state senators voted unanimously to create a study committee aimed at researching and finding solutions to safety problems in state prisons. Lawmakers have spent years looking at how ...

A corrections officer at a south Georgia prison was killed Sunday after an inmate allegedly attacked him “from behind with a homemade weapon,” the state department of corrections announced in a news ...