Police are searching for two inmates who escaped from the Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center in Hodgen, Oklahoma, on Feb. 8 ...

The Champaign County Jail updated the way it documents, tracks and reports use of restraint chairs after an Illinois Answers ...

In an amended settlement, the Department of Corrections agreed to the creation of an independent monitoring team to oversee ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Vidor woman was indicted on a charge of murder in connection with a fatal drug ...

Steve Coleman was kept for 21 months after his parole date because the state could not find a nursing home placement.

Charged with multiple felonies last year after being accused of trying to smuggle drugs into the Bland Correctional Center, a ...

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn't obtain drugs for lethal injections. A shield law passed in 2023 keeps private the ...

A 60-year-old inmate died Thursday at a Lincoln corrections facility, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said.

The Republican State Senator says the hospitalization of staff from an unknown substance should be a wakeup call.

Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing to close two state prisons and two community corrections centers in a cost-saving measure that ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...