Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run them, saying the state ...

Prison officials are investigating after an inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem died, Tuesday. The inmate has been ...

Cordel Ladon Battle was found with sustained sharp force injuries during a reported assault, according to the Jefferson ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

Prison officials said an inmate serving time for a robbery in Madison County died Tuesday as a result of an assault.

An Alabama prison inmate was fatally stabbed inside William Donaldson Correctional Facility in west Jefferson County. The ...