South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a ...

A federal judge has refused to stop what would be the fourth nitrogen gas execution in the U.S. Chief District Judge Emily C.

State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive ...

The victim, Keith DeGroat, 23, of Elm Park, was found shot outside Wilson’s apartment building in a slaying that court ...

VINITA, Okla. — Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from Northeast Oklahoma Correctional Center in Vinita. On Friday, Jeremiah McKinney escaped from Northeast Correctional Center.

A civilian kitchen worker is suing the State of Arizona after she was violently sexually assaulted inside the Tucson prison by a high-risk inmate who was left unsupervised.

Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of shooting and killing a young mother, 21 year-old Kandee Martin, in Dorchester County, South Carolina ...

The Jinx' director Andrew Jarecki exposes shocking conditions in Alabama's prisons in the Sundance premiere documentary 'The Alabama Solution.' ...

Prison violence remains a significant yet underreported issue in the U.S. criminal justice system, leading to unsafe conditions for both incarcerated ...

At 6:10 p.m. the letter from McMaster was sent to the department of corrections to decline executive clemency for Bowman. A ...

Missouri is now the 10th state to offer a prion nursery to allow incarcerated mothers to keep their newborns behind bars after giving birth. The Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster denied clemency for the man set to be executed Friday night for a 2001 Dorchester County murder.