Family members carried photos of loved ones who have died in prison and photos of state officials with the caption “Blood On ...

With a shortage of correctional officers, some Virginia prisons are taking a surprising new approach to discipline – forcing inmates to police one another. If they don’t, everyone is punished.

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

Andrew Jarecki & Charlotte Kaufman, co-directors and producers of ‘The Alabama Solution,’ discuss the documentary about the ...

A Montgomery pastor who ministers in Alabama prisons told state lawmakers Wednesday that he sees incarcerated men who are ...

Jun. 14—ROCHESTER — What punishment fits a prison inmate's "crime" of simply laughing at the warden and his team? For some inmates at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, it appears that a ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

The question of what should happen to the terrorists who committed the October 7 massacre remains at large. Now, after the ...

LONDON - Faced with a prison overcrowding issue, the U.K. government plans to allow judges to hand down alternative punishments for some convicted criminals: bans from going to the pub and attending ...