A high-profile inmate escape, the resignation of the prisons director, and reports that fences, doors and windows were ...

A Nevada death row inmate is requesting a court hearing, pursuing what federal public defenders say is his right to the clemency process.

Utica, N.Y. — An inmate who was badly injured last month at a Central New York state prison has died, his family said. The inmate, Edward Sholtz, 22, died Sunday at Wynn Hospital in Utica ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ark. (KATV) — State Senator Brian King is developing a new project aimed at halting Governor Sarah Sanders' controversial prison expansion project in Franklin County ...

Missouri is now the 10th state to offer a prison nursery to incarcerated mothers. The Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional Center in Vandalia has launched a new program and ...

Sam Brown, who’s challenging Jacky Rosen to represent Nevada in the U.S. Senate, recently launched a “Women for Sam Brown” coalition. The irony is obvious to anyone who knows about his long ...

and Sioux land now held by the state as state trust lands, produced at least $8 million in revenue for the Department of Corrections. At least 200 acres of land inside the boundaries of the Wind River ...

Two New York state agencies must face a transgender corrections officer’s claims alleging deliberate misgendering and other verbal abuse, vandalism and physical taunts, and demeaning and dangerous ...

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HAMMOND — The one-time national president of the Gary-originated outlaw motorcycle organization Sin City Deciples was ...