The Michigan Supreme Court made an extraordinary change to the state’s sentencing law Thursday, striking down automatic, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a fellow prisoner at the ...

A witness to numerous overdoses in state prisons accuses officials of turning a blind eye to collusion between officers and ...

If convicted as charged, Dustin Robert Schanck of East Tawas faces up to life in prison for the felony count of ...

Scott Howard, longtime sheriff for sprawling Powell County, was remembered as a gifted investigator and interrogator and a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump says El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele will meet with him at the White House in the next ...

The warden of a Michigan prison can be sued for alleged training failures in a case where officers gave a plastic bag to a ...

(WILX) - 224 new officers graduated from the Michigan Department of Corrections training academy Friday. The graduates will ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A second South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing ... in a chair 15 feet (4.6 meters) from three prison employees who volunteered to be on the firing ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi ...