A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the death penalty using nitrogen gas in the coming weeks.

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 on end, is not the reality in New York state ...

Albay County Sheriff Craig Apple said the Legislature needs to reevaluate the solitary confinement law because it is making prisons more dangerous. The HALT legislation limits the amount of time that ...

Red Onion State Prison’s chief of security suggested charging the inmates for their care after the burns, while an assistant warden suggested prosecuting them for setting fires in their cells, adding ...

As title cards inform viewers at the start of the film, Pelican Bay State Prison ... fortress cell, in this massive institution designed to hold over a thousand people in solitary confinement ...

As title cards inform viewers at the start of the film, Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing ... concrete fortress cell, in this massive institution designed to hold over a thousand people in ...

Behind the walls of the SD State Penitentiary: Part I Trump signs executive order targeting transgender girls, women athletes US Marine Attempts the US Army Combat Fitness Test Trump announces ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Governor Larry Rhoden calls it “gothic” and studies have shown it’s outdated and unsafe. Photos show a view of the current state of the showers. For the first ...

Inside North Carolina prisons, 13 inmates killed themselves last year. Three more died in January. State officials say they are searching for solutions.

“At Red Onion State Prison the Department of Corrections calls it the Step-Down Program, and we filed the lawsuit because that program amounts to indefinite, long-term solitary confinement ...

DOC Secretary Jared Hoy signed a contract with the consultants late last year to conduct a sweeping review of the state's dozens of adult prisons, with an in-depth look into their use of solitary ...