The plaintiffs, a group of individuals sentenced to death in Utah, brought suit against the Department of Corrections and various state officials, challenging Utah’s current execution protocols for ...

Justice Lassiter committed suicide in March 2023, more than two years into a seven-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark. If he'd made parole as soon as he was eligible, he would have ...

Justice Lassiter committed suicide in March 2023, more than two years into a seven-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark. If he'd made parole as soon as he was eligible, he would have been ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Emotional testimony at the state Capitol Wednesday ... as he urged five-to-life prison sentences for fentanyl trafficking in Utah. "My brother was 15 when his friend ...

Susana Raab for The New York Times In Utah, the 600-acre site of a closed prison is being redeveloped by Lincoln Property Company of Dallas, and local firms along with state government.

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ark. (KATV) — State Senator Brian King is developing a new project aimed at halting Governor Sarah Sanders' controversial prison expansion project in Franklin County ...

Shapiro’s proposal continues a trend in closing state corrections institutions, including: Despite these closures and declining prison populations, costs continued to rise in the state’s ...

New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, Inc. is calling on the New York state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to take immediate action to address the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — An Ogden woman sentenced to the Utah State Prison in 2011 for smothering her 2-month-old son to death says she is ready to reenter society. "I hope everything that I've put into ...

(WHTM) – Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal includes a plan to close two State Correctional Institutions and two state-run centers. The proposal does not name which centers ...