WEBSTER, N.Y. — More women have been banned from prison visits after body scanners mistakenly identified medical devices as contraband. Mary Kay Hargather demonstrated at her home in Webster how she ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Women across New York are being banned from visiting their loved ones in state prisons due to body scanners mistaking personal items like tampons, contraceptives, and surgical mesh for ...

In late February 2026, a theory spread online that convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, a known associate of Jeffrey Epstein, had been replaced in prison by a body double. The rumor spread ...

Senators defied objections from Tennessee’s Correction Department and gave unanimous approval to a bill equipping prison guards in Tennessee’s largest, most notoriously violent prison with body-worn ...

Corrections officers would face random screening with full-body scanners before entering New York’s state prisons under legislation proposed this week at the state Capitol. State Sen. Julia Salazar, a ...

A Tennessee Senate panel wants officers at a privately run prison rocked by a 2025 riot to wear body cameras, despite opposition from the state's correction commissioner. The State and Local ...