After the attack, the state’s prison system is asking for a nearly $2 million one-time expense to add new technology, equipment and staff “to address vulnerabilities,” Noah Peterson, a budget policy ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...

I hope if there is a girl out there who is going through what I have been through, she has the chance to hear my story,” the ...

For the second year in a row, wolf trapping and snaring will be banned in many parts of Idaho this Spring, after a judge ...

The Trump administration secured the release of Marc Fogel, an American teacher detained for more than three years in Russia, ...

The bill would create a new crime of illegal entry into the state, the second offense of which would trigger deportation.

Conservative firebrand Steve Bannon pleaded guilty to defrauding donors in a fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern US border in a deal that allowed him to avoid prison. Bannon pleaded ...

While serving a 15-year prison sentence, an Idaho man took up crocheting to try and reconnect with his daughter, which would ...

The brother of the late New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been sentenced to 18 months of prison time already ...

The Idaho House on Thursday widely approved a bill to make death by firing squad the main death penalty method in Idaho. If ...

The Idaho Department of Corrections is taking steps to reconfigure a portion of the state's largest prison to prepare to ...