The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a fellow prisoner at the federal government’s “Supermax” prison in Florence, Colorado, while ...

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

According to the lawsuit brought by five women at Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Cibola County, more than half ...

But there's one detention facility that Leavenworth city officials don't want. It's the for-profit prison that would hold ICE ...

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

Retired educator turned pastor Myra Harris writes that sparing Mikal Mahdi would send “a powerful message to all of the other ...

The prisoner said the Crips, Bloods, Aryan Brotherhood and even a Norse Pagan worshippers targeted him for attack after ...

Maryland State Police are investigating ... Police said the inmate, Shane Lanham, was found lying on the floor unresponsive at the medium-security men’s prison after being in a cell with another ...

Maryland State Police investigators are on the case of the death of a state prison inmate at Somerset County's Eastern Correctional Institute in Westover. Here's what we know now. The inmate is ...

Underneath the harsh glow of streetlights, the Rev. Jeff Hood inspects a spiderweb woven between the trees hemming in the prison ... after three inmates sued the state due to their unequal ...

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz took heat this week for his administration initially stating that fired state corrections ... of both the prison officers, staff and inmates.

Stephanie Dowells, 62, was throttled allegedly by her inmate husband during an unsupervised visit at the Mule Creek State Prison Facebook / Stephanie Dowells “I’m sick to my stomach that this ...