The last of 76 defendants in a major South Georgia drug trafficking operation have been sentenced to federal prison, wrapping ...

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...

Public ambulance services and hospitals are owed $75 million from the now-bankrupt Wellpath. Some want the state to reimburse them.

As state legislators work to craft complex and costly plans to fix Georgia’s troubled prison system, they may face an extra challenge: Conditions inside the wire appear to be getting even worse.

Under the Illinois public records law, AP obtained a list of 406 inmates housed at Stateville as of August 2024 and matched ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Former prison officer Nicholas Grindle was sentenced for smuggling methamphetamine and accepting bribes at Hays State Prison, ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections has the lowest recidivism rate in the country, but they want to make it even ...

Three people were arrested after attempting to transport contraband to a local prison, according to the Laurens County ...

Your Georgia House of Representatives reconvened on Monday, February 3rd for the fourth week of the 2025 legislative session.