A U.S. Bureau of Prisons inmate has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for possession of contraband within the prison ...

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

An Indiana judge is mandating sex reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate, extending the ongoing legal challenge to a ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

The slaying was discovered Oct. 18, 2022 at the Lenox Township state prison after Ketchum stabbed another inmate eight times ...

The lawsuit brands the Ridgeland Correctional Facility as a “dangerous environment” with inadequate protection for its ...

A Utah man with history of fraud, identity theft and computer crimes has now been charged with impersonating an attorney and representing state prison inmates.

Inmates around the country have complained about dangerous "kennel" vans, which have metal benches and walls, a prisoner advocacy group says.

Pottsville police charged Thompson, 33, with felony aggravated assault, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, misdemeanor ...

A sixth inmate has died at the troubled maximum security prison in Waupun, according to the Department of Corrections.