The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Florida Death Row inmate James Ford, setting the stage for his execution Thursday in the 1997 murders of a couple in Charlotte County.

The Birmingham City Jail is a warehouse for humans where inhumane conditions and neglect from staff caused a woman’s unnecessary death, according to a claim in a federal lawsuit. Attorneys ...

A former Anoka County work release officer is facing charges after an alleged affair with an inmate came to light. Police say ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

A body that was discovered in Alabama nearly 20 years ago was identified as an escaped inmate who had been using a fake name, ...

The Department of Corrections also wants to shut down two state-run Community Corrections Centers, one of which is in Berks County.

Measure A would temporarily change the county charter to allow the Board of Supervisors to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus ...

A representative from Kafferlin Strategies, a consulting firm that recently completed Phase 1 of a study of Potter County including its jail, attended the Friday, Feb. 7 Jail Board meeting ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

An inmate serving time for the brutal Christmas morning murder of a Philadelphia woman has died in a Pennsylvania state ...

Jeffery Beaulieu, 36, Zechariah Churchill, 25, Jaron Hopkins, 35, Thomas Houser, 32, Wyatt King, 18, Sebastien Wood, 23, and Robert Schaumann, 23, were charged after they allegedly beat two other ...