Late Saturday, the head of the state prison system and leader of the union representing correction officers reached a mutual ...

Kayla Bruce spotlights one of the Remarkable Women in Central New York for Women's History Month. A New Hartford man was ...

As private food providers' contracts grow, the meager and moldy portions behind bars have forced some people to eat ...

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

One union leader said a Michigan prison is being told to accept all inmates, including immigrant children, when it is only equpped for adults.

The firing squad is certainly faster — and more violent — than lethal injection. It's a lot more tense, too. My heart started pounding a little after Sigmon's lawyer read his final statement. The hood ...

A California State Prison, Sacramento inmate is accused of stabbing and killing his cellmate on Friday, the California ...

Randy Halprin, one of the 'Texas 7' death row inmates convicted of killing an Irving police officer after escaping from ...

The Monroe County Sheriff's Office is investigating an inmate death at the Monroe County Jail, its fifth in five years.

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some ...

A woman accused of being drunk when she crashed her SUV into a birthday party at a Michigan boat club, killing two children, ...

Federal prosecutors announced the charges Thursday amid a crackdown on violence and dysfunction at the Metropolitan Detention Center, the only federal jail in New York City. The facility's nearly ...