Illinois judges are required to consider a person's youth during sentencing, yet many people are serving life sentences ...

U.S. immigration detention is filled to capacity at 47,600 detainees, a senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

A 2024 law gives people in prison time off their sentences for work and education. But an internal report shows the prison ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and ...

INDIANAPOLIS – County sheriffs across the state said the Indiana Department of Correction owes them, in some cases, hundreds ...

Raymond Childs III was sentenced to 360 years in prison for the 2021 mass murder that resulted in the death of six of his family members.

The pandemic bared the cruelty of prison in new ways. It was a lost opportunity to move away from mass incarceration.

At the same time, we’re seeing more in-person visitors to our facilities, setting a record for the total number of visits per inmate.” State-sentenced inmates are permitted up to four in ...

But if the state doesn’t know a release is coming, there’s no notification. Deputy Secretary of Public Safety and Corrections Derek Ellis says when a release is imminent they notify the victim as soon ...

For the last five years, Isaac Sork has been serving time at the New Mexico State Penitentiary. While Sork was in, he joined a culinary re-entry program. The program is an eight-week course that ...

Here's the history of the firing squad, how it works and why it's scheduled to be used again to execute a South Carolina man.

NYS corrections officers who have been on a prison guard strike for two weeks could now lose their jobs and their health care ...