South Dakota’s $825 million prison project in rural Lincoln County faces legislative and legal hurdles as the proposed site and price tag come under fire.

A bill upping the amount the state can borrow to build a second 4,000-bed prison was approved by the Alabama Senate.

"A prison, like a jail, is a necessary government function, and it must be located somewhere," a state circuit judge ruled.

A retired planner living in the village drafted up the concept that was first revealed in 2018 with GBCI at the center of it.

South Dakota's four-year process to address the state's correctional needs evolved into a plan to build a new men's prison on ...

Despite what construction crews have described as a brutal winter, the new jail is managing to stay on schedule.

All are alleged members of the Islamic State group, captured during the final days of the extremists’ so-called caliphate declared in large parts of Iraq and Syria. The Gweiran Prison ...

Hoosier voters could see in-person early voting slashed from a month to a week under legislation moving to the Indiana Senate’s floor ... the Indiana Secretary of State’s Office.

Utica, N.Y. — An inmate who was badly injured last month at a Central New York state prison has died, his family said. The inmate, Edward Sholtz, 22, died Sunday at Wynn Hospital in Utica ...