More than 80,000 Texas prisoners live in facilities that lack air conditioning. They have former state senator and Houston ...

Prosecutors last year charged the prison's then-warden, Randall Hepp, with misconduct and eight members of his staff with felony inmate abuse Damien Evans, 23, died Tuesday at the Waupun Correctional ...

On Wednesday, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson co-led a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general in sending a ...

Attorney General Jeff Jackson co-led a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general in sending a letter urging Congress to pass legislation allowing states to deploy cell phone jamming systems in jails ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the ...

In a significant move aimed at bolstering security and public safety, Attorney General Anthony G. Brown has rallied with a bipartisan coalition of 31 state attorneys general to advocate for […] ...

A 34-year-old Mexican man serving a four-year prison term for drug distribution died Tuesday morning at Federal Correctional ...

Seth Ketelhut, a 38-year-old Nebraska man serving a prison sentence for assaulting his father, now is charged with the second ...

Six days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Alishea Kingdom went to a medical appointment at the federal ...

An Ohio corrections officer is suing after she said she was attacked by an inmate at a prison ... and the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee reported that staff rated their safety ...

The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of ... ruling that it could cause the inmate "pain and terror" and violate his constitutional rights. Here's what you need to know about ...