Ten New York prison guards were charged Wednesday in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old inmate last month — including two charged with murder. It’s the second time a group of ...

A Wyandotte County judge agreed with criticisms of the death penalty, but he said the case was invalid because both ...

A Sedgwick County detention deputy was critically injured after being attacked with boiling water at the jail, and the ...

A 30-year-old Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office jail deputy remains hospitalized after an inmate threw a pot of boiling water on him, sheriff’s office spokesperson Branden Stitt said in a news release ...

Two former corrections officers charged with second-degree murder for the death of Othel Moore Jr. in the Jefferson City Correctional Center appeared in court Monday as their cases continue to move ...

Eight inmates at Kern Valley State Prison have been charged with murder in the stabbing death last year of another inmate. Not guilty pleas have been entered on ...

More than 35 years after they killed their parents in Beverly Hills, Lyle and Erik Menendez are closer than ever to freedom.

South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the ...

Editor’s note: South Carolina is scheduled to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi on April 11 ... with nothing to lose in ...

Approximately 700 inmates were on an initial list of prisoners who could be released, though the number to be discharged would likely be smaller, state Department of Corrections and Community ...

Retired educator turned pastor Myra Harris writes that sparing Mikal Mahdi would send “a powerful message to all of the other wounded children like him: We will never stop caring for you.” ...