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

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

Vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — the Angola Prison, the largest high-security ...

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

FILE - Exterior view of The Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, Monday, March 9, 2020. (Samuel Golay/Keystone via AP, File)/ ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of an inmate at North Kern State Prison as a homicide, according to CDCR. Officers were conducting ...

John Thomas Wadlinger Jr., 32, of Bensalem, is headed to state prison for 26 to 56 years for causing the crash that killed a Connecticut couple last February while he was under the influence of ...

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 ...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul is seeking $400 million in the next state budget to more quickly install surveillance cameras across the entire New York state prison system. Hochul said in a ...

In South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana, about a quarter or more of the state prison population is Indigenous, even though Native people make up less than a tenth of each state’s population.

According to the minister, Angola's debt service has averaged 16 billion US dollars per year over the past three years, with China as the largest creditor. "Debt is a strategic tool for the growth and ...

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...