The Virginia Department of Corrections has made drug abuse prevention a priority, spending millions of dollars to help prison ...
While the Virginia Department of Corrections maintains its efforts to keep staff and inmates safe, recent allegations of abuse and reports of inmates burning themselves at Red Onion State are at ...
He was transferred shortly after allegations surfaced of inmates burning themselves. Johnson says the burnings and his experience show why Red Onion State Prison, Virginia’s only supermax prison ...
Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad.
“The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (WV DCR) confirms an inmate has died at Mount Olive ...
A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...
South Carolina law requires that death row inmates choose their method of ... multiple stints in juvenile detention and later Virginia state prison for multiple crimes from the ages of 14 to ...
“We have 8,000 more inmates today than we had in January ... other government staffing emergencies. West Virginia deployed troops to state prisons for two years to address staff shortages ...
Death row inmate Aaron Gunches was executed by lethal injection at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence on Wednesday morning. Advertisement The execution was scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. MST.