Morais and another guard saw the beating unfold, according to prison documents, but no one intervened. “I didn’t know whether I was going to live or die,” Sharples recalled.

A guard who was named in a cheeky thank-you note left by two inmates when they chiseled their way out of their cells was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot Wednesday, the same day he was to be ...

Striking NY prison guards face midnight deadline to return to work. By Cam Smith. Published: Feb. 20, ... It makes no sense whatsoever, and that’s kind of been what tipped things over,” he said.

Prison guards work in “an unrecognized war zone,” said Caterina Spinaris, 53, who left a lucrative psychological counseling practice in Denver six years ago.

Guards made an average of $87,000 last year, though pay of more than $100,000 was not uncommon, according to a Marshall Project analysis of payroll data from the Empire Center for Public Policy.

A former corrections officer at Green Haven prison who sucker-punched an inmate in the face and then falsely reported he had been hit first was sentenced Wednesday to three months in federal ...

Fears for his other prison staff members’ safety are escalating as 16-hour shifts become routine as a growing number of guards call in sick in protest or to work side jobs to pay their bills.