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.

Multiple kilos” of illegal drugs were seized during a major bust in one North Carolina county this week, deputies said.The ...

The United States and Russia swapped prisoners on Thursday, bringing a dual citizen jailed in Russia back home in return for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Columbia, S.C. — A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday ... and threats on prison employees; his guilty plea to killing a convenience store clerk in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, before ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday ... of attacks and threats on prison employees; his guilty plea to killing a convenience store clerk in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, before the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A second South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just ... Mahdi will be strapped in a chair 15 feet (4.6 meters) from three prison employees who ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A second South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing ... in a chair 15 feet (4.6 meters) from three prison employees who volunteered to be on the firing ...