Daniel Mitchell, 42, pleaded guilty Dec. 23 to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an inmate only referred to in court ...

A former lieutenant at the Federal Bureau of Prisons was sentenced Friday to two years of probation for his role in an assault on an inmate in Butner, federal prosecutors said.

South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the ...

If his execution proceeds, Mahdi will be the second South Carolinian to die by firing squad in the last 40 days, following Brad Sigmon’s March 7th execution, and only the second American executed by ...

Service dogs trained in North Carolina prisons are changing lives, not just for the people who need them, but for the inmates who train them. During a ceremony at the Caswell Correctional Center ...

Avi Bajpai [email protected] A North Carolina Court of Appeals ruling has reversed a Wake County judge’s order allowing a transgender woman inmate to be transferred to a women’s prison.

POLKTON, N.C. — Three people were arrested this past week after they allegedly used a drone to try smuggling illegal drugs ...

The federal law was ... them are men at Central Prison. The two women on death row are at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. More than 30 death row inmates hoped to enroll ...

Kelly's attorney said was recorded "fairly recently," the crooner can be heard singing from inside the federal prison where he ... the facility is home to 792 inmates and is described as, "A ...

A second South Carolina death row inmate has chosen execution by firing ... The next day, he shot and killed a North Carolina store clerk as the clerk was checking his identification.

Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad. He is only the second person in the state to choose to die this way since ...