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

A documentary aired at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah is going behind bars in Alabama prisons revealing what conditions ...

Bureau of Prisons employees confused over offers to resign sent by the Office of Personnel Mgmt. The BOP is currently without a director and the changes are coming fast.

The winner of a special election to decide the next Saratoga Springs public works commissioner will likely take several days ...

The New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, or DOCCS, has placed Upstate Correctional Facility in ...

The land was taken from 57 Indigenous nations, through 71 land cessions, some of which are still contested to this day.

James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

A 39-year-old inmate with the Oregon Department of Corrections walked away from a work crew in Lakeview at 7:36 a.m. this ...

The governor announced a series of reforms after corrections officers brutally beat an inmate in Central New York prison who ...

The attorney general's office said it would protect every child and law-abiding individual in RI - regardless of immigration ...

A “one man scourge” with a lengthy rap sheet was busted this week in connection to nearly 20 heists across Manhattan — all ...