According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, 31-year-old Javontay Savon Rogers was charged with murder in the ...

Jhoan Bastidas is just starting to make sense of it all. How he is back in the once-prosperous hometown in Venezuela that he ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman. Here's a look at who else is on death row in the state.

The cell used for solitary confinement, popularly known as “the hole,” was generally referred to as “the dungeon” 100 years ...

Hannibal the Cannibal' Robert Maudsley, 71, has been in solitary confinement in a glass cell for 46 years after he killed ...

Labelled the "Mad Axeman" for holding an elderly couple at axe-point, Frank Mitchell was condemned to life at HMP Dartmoor.

Labelled the "Mad Axeman" for holding an elderly couple at axe-point, Frank Mitchell was condemned to life at HMP Dartmoor.

Rikers Island correction captains and officers revived a man who had overdosed on drugs, and a detainee with a long record of ...

A federal judge in Washington barred the administration from deporting five Venezuelans under the law before Trump issued the ...

As the UK's longest-serving prisoner dubbed 'Hannibal the Cannibal' goes on hunger strike, we've taken a look at inside the ...

A prisoner with epilepsy was found dead in his cell despite staff seeing him lying prone on the floor during earlier checks.

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially ...