DOJ alleges that since at least 2012, more than a quarter of the people due to be released from Louisiana prisons have ...

Supreme Court standards prohibit officer use of force only if it is "malicious and sadistic." Courts rarely rule that extreme ...

PHOENIX — An inmate who died in June at the state prison in Yuma just days after undergoing hernia repair surgery succumbed ...

The Senate passed Thursday the Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act, a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. Senators Marsha ...

Luigi Mangione is set to be arraigned Monday in Manhattan on the state indictment, according to Bragg's office. Here's what ...

Seven inmates were killed in a prison riot in southern Mexico, when inmates resisting transfers to other jails fought police with guns and knives, authorities said. Four police ...

The annual report by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty found the state continues to execute and sentence to ...

Luigi Mangione, suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is being held in Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) Brooklyn —the same New York federal jail as Sean "Diddy" ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion Thursday night to block death row inmate Robert Roberson from testifying at the Capitol on Friday.

One of the inmates with a gun held out for about three hours, protected by 20 fellow prisoners, officials said.

Questions about labor law, juror discrimination and a billion-dollar software judgment reached the Supreme Court's petition ...

Diddy is getting ready for a pretty rough Christmas.