South Dakota lawmakers will not convene to make the call on a new prison site on July 22, according to Gov. Larry Rhoden’s office.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has announced that all Level III and Level IV facilities ...

Two inmates have been killed and a correctional officer attacked since the beginning of June, say CDCR officials ...

REDWOOD CITY – No criminal charges will be filed in the overdose death of a 25-year-old inmate at a jail in Redwood City ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying out executions. South Carolina uses either lethal injection or the ...

An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by ...

Matthew Vogel was finishing up a six-month stint at the South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tennessee, for a ...