The legislation, introduced by Republican lawmakers, has successfully passed through the Democrat-controlled General Assembly and has garnered support from figures in the criminal justice field ...

Danny Ludeman, a highly respected leader in financial services as CEO of Wells Fargo Advisors who later founded a nonprofit ...

The cause of death has yet to be determined by the Medical Examiner. The Sheriff's Office said the name of the individual and ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike that crippled the state’s correctional system, but said enough ...

The Richmond City Sheriff’s Office reported that an inmate passed away in the late evening of Sunday, March 9.

A bill moving through the House Homeland Security Subcommittee would create a statewide victim notification system.

Djovani Jean-Pierre spent his 17th birthday in a small county jail in rural northern Alabama, where he has languished for ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner ...

A Western Virginia Regional Jail inmate died after being found unresponsive in his cell, according to the facility. On Friday morning, Martin Scott Ransone, 64, was found and medical and additional ...

Twenty-three inmates at the troubled federal jail in Brooklyn have been charged with crimes ranging from smuggling weapons in a Doritos bag to the stabbing last month of a man convicted in the killing ...

A Virginia inmate is facing two felony charges related to an attack on a correctional officer at Nottoway Correctional Center ...

The Virginia Department of Corrections will be testing drug and contraband scanners to see if they can reduce overdose deaths in their facilities.