Solar energy systems are now up and running at six Connecticut state prisons. The state says that the seven energy systems ...

Weeks after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a bill requiring air conditioning in those facilities by 2032 has gained traction in the House.

Some 13 years on from that landmark case, a Louisiana teenager accused of murder made headlines when he survived a ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States is “doing fine” in trade deal talks with China, and that the sharply ...

JOE Ingle swore he would never watch a friend die. But in 1988, he had to break that rule. Willie Darden, on Florida’s death ...

The Prison Officers' Association will demand staff are given stun guns in the most dangerous jails during a meeting with the ...

Six men in Bangladesh tell the BBC about how they were forced into detention under the now-deposed government.

A firing squad executed a South Carolina man Friday who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past ...

Mikal Mahdi, with a hood over his head, cried out as the three bullets to the heart hit him and his arms flexed. A red bull's ...

South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to die 20 years ago for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. He will be the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes ...