Inmates at an Ottawa jail are on a hunger strike over the conditions at the institution, which they say have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Five youths are facing charges after briefly escaping from the Agassiz Youth Centre in Portage la Prairie Friday evening.

The Department of Public Safety continues to investigate allegations of illegal deer hunting in Saint John, with one suspect having been identified so far.

North Carolina resident Ruth Bryant wanted to check one item off her bucket list: getting arrested and spending time in jail.

Three packages have been seized from Stony Mountain Institution containing contraband items.

Stonewall RCMP are investigating a stabbing at Stony Mountain Institution.

The inquest, set to begin at 9 a.m. on Feb. 24 and last 12 days, will probe the events surrounding the deaths of Floyd Deleary, 39, Justin Thompson, 27, and Murray James Davis, 24.

Currently they are only able to place collect calls to landlines.

The policies meant to prevent suicides in correctional centres weren't properly followed ahead of the 2016 death of a Dauphin Correctional Centre inmate, a Manitoba judge has ruled.

Officials said six offenders were caught on a body scanner trying to smuggle contraband into the Regina Correctional Centre.