Oregon Department of Corrections this year floated the idea of replacing the state penitentiary, citing sweltering summer ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who killed a man, burned his eyes with cigarettes and then painted “catch me if ...

A man who was under supervision by the Washington Department of Corrections has been charged with murder after a deadly crash ...

A death row inmate who killed three people 21 years ago as he taunted police with a message in blood, then beat up an officer ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A man who was convicted of killing four members of a Phoenix family over 30 years ago as an act of revenge is ...

Richard Djerf, 55, was sentenced to death for the 1993 Arizona murders of Albert Luna Sr., his wife, Patricia Luna, and two ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections announced it will reopen investigations into several prison deaths thanks to ...

A jury has begun deliberations in the upstate New York murder trial of three former corrections officers accused in the fatal ...

Washington’s family recently created a GoFundMe to help pay for funeral expenses. According to the fundraiser, Washington was ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review more than two dozen unprosecuted homicides inside its prisons, as well ...