A healthcare shakeup is happening in Oregon's prisons as the Oregon Department of Corrections announces the firing of two ...

Missouri’s local jails are paid $24.95 per day for each inmate they hold before eventually going to a state prison. A ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown, ...

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn't obtain ...

A former high-ranking S.C. Department of Corrections guard who authorities say became a thriving black market prison boss ...

The 84-page internal investigation from the Oregon Department of Corrections also highlighted inadequate treatment of women’s ...

Idaho House Bill 37 aims to make the firing squad the state's primary means of execution as prosecutors prepare to try Bryan ...

The amount the county paid to outside attorneys rose 18% from the previous year to $75 million — nearly double what the ...

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In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

Michael Cooper, a 75-year-old inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary, died on February 4, 2025, at a local hospital, according ...

El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally and to house some of the ...