Public defender, DA, judge joined to help Matthew J. Schweichler, who is mentally disabled, mentally ill but also violent, ...

None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the death of Robert Brooks.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The Nevada Department of Corrections reported five prisoner deaths, including three convicted ...

Steve Coleman was kept for 21 months after his parole date because the state could not find a nursing home placement.

Kopp was serving a sentence of 120 to 300 months for second-degree murder, the department said. The Review-Journal previously reported that, according to police, Kopp confessed in a 911 call to ...

A high-profile inmate escape, the resignation of the prisons director, and reports that fences, doors and windows were ...

A Nevada death row inmate is requesting a court hearing, pursuing what federal public defenders say is his right to the clemency process.

The family of a twice-convicted child molester believes the California law that has now freed him from prison should not exist in the first place.

The 2017 state champ team of Caroline Homer, Erin Bianco (that year's individual state champ), Ryne Prigge, Emma Terwilliger, Laura Pasmick, Brooke Pasmick and Evelyn Bercher helped start the ...

A man wanted for a triple homicide that allegedly occurred in the Ely State Prison has been arrested. In December of 2024, the Nevada Attorney General’s Office contacted the Regional Gang Unit seeking ...

A man wanted in connection with a triple homicide that occurred at Ely State Prison , according to authorities, in July 2024 has been arrested in Reno.Andrew Em ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The state prison system in South Dakota is seeing its share of violence. There are currently more than a hundred court cases involving prison inmates in the hands of ...