Gov. Jeff Landry announced in February 2025 that executions are set to resume in Louisiana, and state judges signed death ...

Concordia Parish could receive $3 million for the renovation of a jail facility for 17-year-olds as part of $93.6 million the ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s lawsuit challenges a consent decree judgment made in 2013 which prohibits the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office from working with immigration and ...

ALBANY — A state prison in western New York remained in lockdown Wednesday after inmates took control of three areas of a dormitory for several hours — an episode that took place against the ...

Violent Illinois inmates from shuttered prison sent to medium-security sites When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September ...

Erin Hooley / AP Share Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison was closed last summer, 278 were convicted of murder, and 100 more are serving ...

A state prison was locked down after uprising inmates injured three guards and took control of three dorms — days after the state’s Department of Corrections head complained about staffing ...

A New York state prison was placed on lockdown after inmates attacked and injured three guards days after concerns of staffing shortages were reported. The New York State Department of Corrections ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 12 death row inmates have so far been scheduled for execution in South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Oklahoma and Ohio. On his first day ...