A deputy director for Iowa's state correctional department will oversee South Dakota's prison system come November.

Gacy resided at Menard Correctional Center in Illinois for 14 years on death row, until all of his appeals were denied. On ...

A Disney Channel fan favorite looks completely different in his new role portraying mass murderer Richard Speck in Netflix's ...

Tobias Jelinek exclusively tells EW how he prepared for the part — including being "cat-called" as he sashayed through prison ...

Richard Speck was an American mass murderer who became infamous for killing eight student nurses in Chicago. He broke into ...

Before Gacy was administered the lethal injection, he uttered his infamous final words: “kiss my a**.” Gacy, who worked at KFC and came to be known as the 'Killer Clown', showed no remorse for his ...

One of the most disturbing scenes in Netflix’s new Ed Gein true crime series is when Birdman appears in the final episode, ...

On March 13, 1980, Gacy was convicted of murdering 33 people and sentenced to die for 12 of those killings. According to ...

An Illinois Fraternal Order of Police lodge is demanding the removal of Illinois Department of Corrections' acting director ...

IN A LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR, CORRECTIONS OFFICIALS CONTEND CLOSING THE PRISON WILL SAVE TAXPAYERS MONEY, IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR INMATES, REDUCE OVERTIME AND EXPAND SERVICES. THE UNION THAT ...

A 74-year-old inmate died Friday at a Lincoln correctional facility, according to the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Steven Murray was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder at ...

Francisco Benitez, who spent over three decades in prison for killing two 14-year-old boys in 1989, would receive $18.5 ...