When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

Prosecutors allege Morrell provided inmates with confidential information in exchange for cash payments. COLUMBIA, S.C. — A ...

Leon Morell has been charged with disclosure of confidential information, obstruction of justice, money laundering, ...

A press release issued last week by the union representing corrections officers statewide asserted there were more than 2,000 ...

An inmate who escaped from Bellville Hospital back in January has been added to Texas' 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders List. The video above is from a previous report. Authorities are offering a cash ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...

The execution of 64-year-old James Dennis Ford is set for 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison under a death warrant signed by Gov.

A former captain at a South Carolina prison is accused of selling inmates confidential information, creating a security risk, ...

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

New developments could influence Hinds County's (MS) plans to charge Jackson City for housing detainees at the Raymond ...

Patrick Grayson Spann escaped from the Hinds County detention facility in Mississippi, took a dead man's name and had two ...