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.

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 ...

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

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man who pleaded guilty to the murders of a man and woman inside a Kansas City, Kansas, deli was sentenced to life in prison Thursday. Jermelle A. Byers, 45, will not be ...

SINGER NOAH CAMERON WILL BE ON THE MOUND FOR KECHI TONIGHT. A Kansas City man has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison without parole for trafficking fentanyl and illegally possessing ...

California prison officials are investigating the death of an incarcerated person at Mule Creek State Prison as a homicide. Longeno Jones, 51, was found unresponsive in his cell on May 21 ...

At least 13 people have been arrested, including a fellow inmate, for collaborating with ... everyone who contributed any role to the prison break in New Orleans accountable," Murrill said.