West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...

The proposal to close five state prisons as part of the upcoming state budget has local and state lawmakers deeply concerned ...

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

Some nonviolent inmates will be released early from prisons around the state to help ease the pressure of staffing shortages, ...

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.

Authorities say they’ve arrested a suspect near Beresford after he shot a police officer in western Sioux Falls Tuesday ...

Five women imprisoned at Western New Mexico Correctional Facility near Grants have filed a civil rights lawsuit over what they say is a “longstanding and ongoing” stomach infection circulating among ...

In March, wildfires erupted across Western North Carolina, burning nearly 18,000 acres through an abundance of dry fuels and ...

Jessie Hoffman, Jr. was pronounced dead around 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at the State Penitentiary at Angola, officials announced in ...

The tension in the gallery could be felt as the corrections officers involved in the death of Robert Brooks were brought ...