Missouri 's status as one of the most active death penalty states is about to change for one simple reason: The state is ...

The state’s prison system does not have to allow interviews with inmates, a federal appeals court decided, echoing a decision ...

A Filipino woman who was on death row in Indonesia — and was nearly executed by firing squad in 2015 — was moved late Sunday ...

A former correctional officer from Kentucky, Jacob Salcido, 40, was sentenced today to 100 months in federal prison, followed ...

In a heartwarming ceremony on Friday, 16 inmates in the South Carolina prison system achieved a milestone that many thought ...

Filipino death row inmate Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso knelt to pray when officers came to take her to an execution site in May ...

A federal court dismissed an appeal challenging a S.C. Department of Corrections policy that limits access to inmates for ...

Organizers say they hope that in their roles, the graduates can help improve the culture of the prison population.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group of South Carolina inmates now have a college degree. They graduated Friday from a prison initiative ...

American Civil Liberties Union’s South Carolina chapter lacks a First Amendment right to interview a state death row inmate ...

Two South Carolina women were among 39 pardons; According to the White House, the single-day act of clemency was the largest ...