Alabama became the first state to carry out executions with nitrogen gas when three inmates were put to death using the ...

Nevada prisons have nearly 700 undocumented immigrants in custody, costing taxpayers about $24 million a year.

These medications are life and death for someone coming out of custody and in that state,” said Mary Taylor, a clinical ...

A Tier III registered child sex offender Richard Kenneth Cox, 58, visited two high schools and three county-owned recreation and fitness centers.

Lawmakers gathered Wednesday at the State Capitol to push for prison reform legislation.Members of the Democratic Caucus and ...

The plan, called "Operation Guardian," includes multiple options to parole undocumented immigrants from prison to ICE custody ...

New details have been revealed in Governor Josh Shapiro’s proposed plan to close two state Correctional Institutions and two ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

A continuing onslaught of bills from the Oklahoma Senate and House of Representatives includes abolishing the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, a required license to chase storms, and ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposed state budget presented on Tuesday includes plans to close two state prisons. The $51.5 billion ...

Zechariah Squires, a 34-year-old inmate at Coxsackie Correctional Facility, was pronounced dead at approximately 9:43 PM on ...