By Jay Root and Jan Ransom An inmate at a New York State prison was pronounced dead on Saturday after being found unresponsive in his cell, state officials said. The inmate, Jonathan Grant ...

They wear casual prison attire, surrounded by a gritty environment Since sharing that story, hundreds more ex-inmates and people who have worked in corrections shared their own experiences ...

SINGAPORE - Inmates are brewing up a storm learning to be baristas or training for a career in hospitality as part of efforts to equip themselves with skills for life after prison. One inmate ...

(NEXSTAR) – A South Carolina death row inmate is set to be executed on Friday, March 7. Instead of the more traditional lethal injection, the inmate—Brad Sigmon, 67—has chosen to die by ...

A federal judge in the District of Columbia Monday issued a temporary restraining order halting the Trump administration's plans to move transgender inmates to facilities corresponding to their ...

WASHINGTON – A federal judge has blocked the Justice Department from transferring 12 transgender female inmates to male prisons in a setback for President Donald Trump’s executive orders ...

A 61-year-old inmate died over the weekend at one of the New York prisons where National Guard troops were deployed to replace corrections officers who walked off the job in an illegal strike.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed alongside the state itself that his trial was unfair, ordering a new trial and staving off his execution.

Former inmates at Estrella Jail reveal how drugs get smuggled in despite security measures. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office says they plan to install x-ray scanners to stop the flow of drugs.

Authorities say they are searching for two inmates who escaped from Beaver Creek Institution in Gravenhurst, Ont., including a convicted murderer serving an indeterminate sentence. In a release ...

Now he runs a prison where an inmate was fatally beaten by guards. By Jan Ransom After guards at the Marcy Correctional Facility in central New York beat a handcuffed prisoner to death late last ...

He was the oldest of the 57 inmates on death row as the state weighed resuming executions after a 15-year pause, CBS affiliate WWL-TV reported. Sepulvado was charged with the 1992 killing of his 6 ...