Local, city, and county corrections officers are participating in a crucial jail management class designed to equip them with ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations ...

The Alabama Senate passed a bill Thursday that the sponsor said would help state and local law enforcement identify and ...

If a woman is pregnant at the time she is sentenced to incarceration, the bill mandates that the court include a term of ...

An inmate at William Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama, has died from sharp force injuries sustained ...

The Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would require anyone above the age of 18 who causes the ...

Court records show that a death warrant was signed this week for Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted in 1996 for raping and killing a woman in a rural part of St. Tammany.

The Times has obtained a list of 53 Venezuelan men the Trump administration has put in a wartime prison built to hold Al ...

According to prosecutors, Johnny Ray Jordan took people’s money and never did the projects he promised. Last year, he was ...

Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000 ...

Kuwaiti TV host Fajer al-Saeed has been sentenced to three years in prison for 'spreading false news' and 'misusing the ...

HB40 seeks oversight of the parole board to address low approval rates and requiring written explanations for deviations from ...