Leonard John Warwick, sentenced over three murders and a series of bombings in the 1980s, has died aged 78 at Long Bay ...

Brooks wasn’t able to join the “second-chance club,” as his father called it, after corrections officers violently beat him ...

Richard Lee Tabler, 46, would be the second inmate executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the ...

The UN children's fund has also warned that child soldiers are being recruited at unprecedented levels as the conflict in ...

A bill in the Kentucky legislature would require the state's prisons to designate bathrooms, sleeping quarters and other areas by biological sex.

Howard Willis was sentenced to death in 2010 for the murders eight years earlier of newlyweds Adam Chrismer, 17, and Samantha ...

Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons ...

Los Angeles’s latest wildfires have reduced communities to ashes and highlighted one of the government’s counterproductive tendencies: barring qualified people from helping their communities because ...

Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

A man was arrested for allegedly providing tobacco products to inmates working at the Onalaska Volunteer Fire Department, ...