At least 22 people have died in Florida prisons so far this year according to information from the Florida Department of ...

New York’s prisons are teeming with aging inmates at increasing costs to the taxpayer, and people are no safer from crime, ...

Lawson was serving a sentence for fatally stabbing his 22-year-old son in their Southeast Portland apartment in 2015.

New York Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, at his State of the Judiciary address, shared the podium with the head of corrections and ...

Attorneys for convicted murderer James Ford have filed legal briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration says it's recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp ...

Rowan Wilson, the chief judge of New York State’s highest court, used his State of the Judiciary address to push back against ...

For a week in 1964, the jail was the epicenter of America's civil rights movement, as Martin Luther King Jr. and several ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

An inmate serving time for the brutal Christmas morning murder of a Philadelphia woman has died in a Pennsylvania state ...

A fence with barbed wire encircles the water tower across from the state women’s prison in Shakopee. A plain chain-link fence lines the Catholic cemetery. But five years after local ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is searching for two inmates who unlawfully walked away from a correctional center in ...