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 ...

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 Hodgen.

Leaders of the union representing thousands of N.Y. correction officers issued a vote of "no confidence" this week for ...

A 66-year-old Shelton, Washington, man was sentenced to 90 months in prison Friday for his role in a drug trafficking ring ...

The rain drizzle had just seized in Balaka on Monday. The town is at the crossroads of the cities of Blantyre, Lilongwe and ...

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn’t obtain drugs for lethal injections. A shield law passed in 2023 keeps private the ...