Marcy, N.Y. — State officials are investigating the death this weekend of an inmate who was housed at a Utica-area state prison. The inmate was taken early Saturday from Mid-State Correctional ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say may be making a comeback in more states as lethal injection drugs become ...

(NEXSTAR) – A South Carolina death row inmate is set to be executed on Friday, March 7. Instead of the more traditional lethal injection, the inmate—Brad Sigmon, 67—has chosen to die by ...

Eleven corrections workers were placed on leave after a 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility died. Inmates said he was viciously beaten by prison guards. By Jan Ransom The State ...

The Supreme Court has tossed out the murder conviction and death sentence of Oklahoma's Richard Glossip, ordering a new trial. Glossip was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1997 killing in ...

A BOP memo issued Feb. 21 instructs officials to comply with Trump’s order by preventing transgender inmates from purchasing “any items that align with transgender ideology,” such as chest ...

New York state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is struggling to keep striking officers on the job, as it grapples with the fallout from two high-profile inmate deaths and ...

The outlet reported that dorms inside the facility were under inmate control for several hours, where staff said they felt "unsafe." However, the state told the outlet that correctional officers ...

Nearly a dozen staff members are on administrative leave and state officials are investigating after an inmate at a New York medium-security prison died over the weekend, prison officials told USA ...

New York State Police say they’re investigating the Saturday death of an inmate who was housed at an upstate medium security prison – reports of which Gov. Kathy Hochul called “deeply ...

Arizona has scheduled an execution date for a condemned inmate whose death sentence the state originally planned to carry out in early 2023. This would mark Arizona's first execution since then ...

Authorities have returned federal inmate John Fitzgerald Hanson to Oklahoma to face a likely execution about a month after President Donald Trump issued an executive order restoring federal ...