Research shows that many inmates serving long-term or life sentences continue to cause trouble even behind bars. A University ...

Gary Jones went missing along with his fiancée, Spelman College professor Joycelyn Wilson, in Lake Oconee on Feb. 8. His body ...

A Connecticut correction officer was stabbed in the neck last summer, and deploying a caustic pepper spray on recalcitrant ...

The Georgia Department of Corrections, with the help of other local authorities, is searching for an escaped inmate from ...

Authorities launched a search for an incarcerated man who walked away from a Male Community Reentry Program facility.

James D. Sutton, 40, of Depew, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to eight years and four months in ...

Deputies are searching for 22-year-old Taegan Howarth, last seen wearing a yellow vest and white hard hat near Hwy 44 and Zen ...

Content warning: Discussions of murder, rape, and assault. Recently, we featured stories from formerly incarcerated people ...

The firing squad is certainly faster — and more violent — than lethal injection. It's a lot more tense, too. My heart started pounding a little after Sigmon's lawyer read his final statement. The hood ...

A 22-year-old inmate was found unresponsive in his cell Saturday. He died Monday, making that the second death in less than a ...

By Ryan Young, Devon M. Sayers and Michelle Watson, CNN Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — A convicted double murderer has been ...