An incident took place at the Shawnee Correctional Center recently, and a local lawmaker is speaking on the matter.

Stabbings, escapes from cages and getting out of restraints are some of the incidents correctional officers are reporting to ...

He had a killer final meal. A South Carolina inmate who died by lethal injection Friday chowed down on a hearty multi-course ...

California prison officials are investigating the killing of a Livermore man serving time in Kern Valley State Prison. Guards ...

Last year, two Black men were beaten and tasered by six officers in a no-warrant house raid. Since then, the Justice Department said it got more complaints regarding similar instances by the deputies.

The federal Bureau of Prisons says it has increased staffing in recent months to make up for staggering shortfalls at the ...

Deputies said on Tuesday, Sept. 17, David Brown Banks was found guilty by a Yancey County jury of trafficking in opium or ...

Jurors heard a one-minute extract from a phone call between Jason Jones and his mother in which he seems to justify his actions.

Freddie Eugene Owens decided to go big with his last meal before he was executed yesterday (20 September). The death row ...

South Dakota Department of Corrections officials say correctional officers confiscated numerous items of contraband since ...

South Carolina is set on Friday to execute Freddie Owens, who would become the first death row inmate to die at the hands of ...

On Wednesday, the California Department of Water Resources held a levee breaching ceremony to celebrate the completion of the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project in ...