The recommendation by Gov. Shapiro's administration comes amid longer-term national trends of shrinking prison populations.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown, the federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CST at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was convicted of the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Higgins Gulch in western South Dakota was where ... Behind the walls of the SD State Penitentiary: Part I Three suspects emerged: Briley Piper, Elijah Page and ...

For the first time in years, KELOLAND News has been invited inside the South Dakota State Penitentiary with a camera. The climate crisis is set to erase $1.47 trillion in US home values.

Tour Guide Nick Gilette discusses some of the features of Eastern State Penitentiary and how it was different than other prisons at the time.

Georgia’s Special Penitentiary Service on Wednesday said Mzia Amaglobeli ... was on Monday charged with assault on a police officer during a rally in the city of Batumi, western Georgia, last week.

Maybe state, Allegheny County and Pittsburgh officials could convene talks to turn Western Penitentiary into a homeless shelter, and then expand into affordable housing. This would require all ...

The Pardon and Parole Board voted 4-1 to deny recommending clemency for Wendell Grissom, 57, who turned down an opportunity to speak to the board via a video link from the State Penitentiary in ...

Latin America's biggest penitentiary, with capacity for 40,000 inmates. On Monday, Bukele stunned Salvadorans and Americans alike by offering to incarcerate US convicts and deported prisoners ...

For more details, please refer to the SCI Pittsburgh Feasibility Study and the accompanying FAQs Tom Tripoli is on a mission to halt the demolition of the former Western Penitentiary along the ...