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.

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

Napa County is to open its new $133 million jail within a few months, replacing a jail in use for nearly 50 years.

A Minneapolis attorney is under investigation on suspicion of sneaking illicit drugs to inmates in the Hennepin County jail, ...

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 Princess of Wales has made the promotion of the early years development of children one of the key elements of her public work.

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 ...