About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

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 […] ...

After Sigmon chose the firing squad, suddenly, said Taylor, “I got catapulted into the movement to save his life.” She was ...

Prison staffers and an EMS crew performed life-saving procedures on Javier Francisco Villalba-Reyes following the 6 a.m.

Harry, Secretary of Corrections. At the same time, we’re seeing more in-person visitors to our facilities, setting a record for the total number of visits per inmate.” State-sentenced inmates ...

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 ...

Commissioner Frank Strada and Riverbend Maximum Security Institution Warden Kenneth Nelsen. In their suit, the death row inmates say the state’s new lethal injection protocol, unveiled in ...

The women said they were beaten and sprayed with pepper spray while in restraints by Central California Women’s Facility officers.

A 21-year-old inmate at Roxbury Correctional Institution was found dead on March 13th with apparent head injuries. Emergency medical services pronounced the inmate, Lawrence Antonio Borom ...