What's life like for the 15,000 women behind bars in Mexico? In many ways, it's far worse than you might think.

Butte-Silver Bow’s top official sees virtually no community support for hosting a new women’s prison, so responding to a Montana Department of Corrections query about it might be a waste of time.

The new prison in Chesterfield, which is to rise on a multi-building campus, is expected to be completed by 2028 in ...

In Idaho prisons, more than two dozen women say guards prey on them with little fear of consequences. And women who speak up are often punished. InvestigateWest looked into nearly 60 ...

John Wayne Gacy was married to Marlynn Myers when he was first convicted, then to Carole Hoff at the height of his murder ...

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student was put to death ...

The new mixed-custody prison will replace a decaying 112-year-old facility in Clinton that Gov. Phil Murphy in 2021 ordered ...

At 84, former University of Illinois Professor Jim Nowlan concedes he is a little old to be tilting at windmills. But it's OK, he said, because "I've tilted at a lot of windmills" during a long ...

A Missouri man who long maintained his innocence has been executed for the fatal shooting of a state trooper more than 20 ...

A man convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond has become the 14th person executed in Florida ...

A Florida man convicted of killing two women whose bodies were found in a rural pond decades ago is scheduled to be executed ...