A contract security officer at Donaldson Correctional Facility was arrested on Wednesday following a narcotics investigation.

Indiana’s second-in-command has pushed prison authorities to “ignore” a court order compelling them to provide a transgender ...

Governor Kay Ivey announced Friday an official time for the execution of James Osgood for the murder and rape of Chilton ...

A new women’s prison would create about 100 full-time jobs, he said, including nursing and maintenance positions.

FILE - This image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Alabama death row inmate Robin “Rocky” Myers who was convicted in the 1991 killing of his neighbor, Ludie Mae Tucker.

Prison breaks are not uncommon in Indonesia. Before the Aceh's Kutacane prison break, ere are several other notable cases of ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Minister of Immigration and Corrections, Agus Andrianto, admitted that the number of inmates at Kutacane Prison in Southeast Aceh exceeds its capacity. On Monday, March 10, as ...

Idaho is looking to renovate its death row to accommodate firing squad executions, but contractors are shying away from helping build the facility, Michelle Del Rey writes ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman said he has leaned on what he's learned through Buddhism to help him improve his life, ...

A federal grand jury this week indicted former corrections officer Alex Christian Andrews on charges of federal program ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin Meyers, a first for her time in office and the first commutation ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin "Rocky" Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she could not move ...