It also would give prison staff immunity from liability should the children be injured, unless “the injury is affirmatively caused by the negligent act of a state employee.” The North Dakota ...

In return for an undisclosed sum of money, Nauru’s government has “agreed” to grant 30-year visas to an initial three victims ...

As conflict continues to escalate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Catholic Church in Angola has signaled its ...

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Four different Northern Iowa players scored in double figures as the Panthers rolled to a 74-56 win over Indiana State in Missouri Valley Conference action Saturday.

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out ...

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...