COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's latest execution should be halted so that lawyers for the condemned inmate can get more ... In Georgia and Tennessee, only one 5 gram dose of the drug ...

The government had wanted for some time to charge Butler — whose group had a longstanding practice of distributing literature to prison inmates and corresponding ... murder in the near-fatal shooting ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

A government memo aimed at implementing President Donald Trump’s order rolling back protections for transgender people has ...

A Catoosa County inmate committed suicide on Friday.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s top prosecutor asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he could be executed for his role in the kidnapping and ...

The state's private prisons see higher numbers of deaths and sexual assaults while providing less opportunity for support and education.

Authorities arrested Charlton Liner, 61, on charges of first-degree murder and felony murder in connection with the death of ...

The Conservation (Fire) Camp Program, jointly run by California's corrections and fire departments, trains inmates to fight wildfires and respond to other emergencies. Inmate firefighters earn ...

John Matthew Nigh was being held on attempted murder charges. A manhunt is underway for a North Carolina inmate who escaped through the jail's ventilation system, authorities said. John Matthew ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole as they seek to appeal their cases ...