Corrections officers in New York say their working conditions are dangerous and they are forced into overtime. They have ...

Cinematic portrayals of inmates being thrown in a dingy, small, unlit cell with no running water and only a slit in the door for occasional food for years ...

"There's so many other steps that have to come after this for some action to really ... make us believe that it's true," a former prisoner said.

Girls who are in state custody for committing crimes are being moved back to the Ware Youth Center, a privately-runfacility ...

Tony Evers says he has not visited any of the ... in solitary confinement. The death comes after prison staff began intermittently shutting off the water to prevent him from flooding his cell ...

With Trump back in the White House after having promised during the campaign to unleash “the largest deportation operation in ...

Picture: South Carolina Dept of Corrections Earlier this month ... The Guardian reported that he was “locked in a solitary cell narrower than his arm span and cut off from nearly all human ...

The only woman on Louisiana Death Row, Antionette Frank, could receive execution date after 30 years of incarceration. Read ...

Louisiana senators are pressing state officials for information about the leadership of a controversial juvenile justice ...

Three Aryan Brotherhood members were convicted of orchestrating murders and other crimes from California prisons. But will ...

Louisiana’s state-run youth detention centers have reported significant decreases in assaults, something officials attribute to a new detention facility for particularly at-risk youth and enhanced ...

In 1956, the Legislature moved all executions to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, according to the prison's website. But in 1972, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling known as Gregg v.