Lockdowns can be indistinguishable from solitary confinement-like conditions, with those incarcerated given little yard time and limited access to educational programming and commissary.

Texas prison violence reached its highest level in at least a decade, prompting a monthslong lockdown in 19 lockups this ...

Hundreds of inmates in the recreational yard at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora were refusing to go back to their cells, leading to several altercations involving inmates and guards.

The prison has been on lockdown since an inmate escape attempt on October 12 that resulted in the deaths of two employees.

Multiple people familiar with the matter reported that the altercation that triggered the lockdown involved an attack by members of the violent MS-13 street gang.

The Illinois Department of Corrections is seeing a 5-year high number of lockdowns in the state.

Prisons are typically placed on lockdown after violence erupts among inmates. The medium-security prison in Pinckneyville was locked down Thursday, for example, after an inmate assaulted a guard.