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

Utah. With its large nuclear families and religious lifestyles, the state is a hotbed for the lucrative family blogging industry. The reality show “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” brought ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Bruce Dallas Goodman spent 19 years in prison ... release Utah had no law on the books to compensate the wrongfully imprisoned. With no compensation from the state ...

Most of these states have rules prohibiting state authorities for arresting people solely on their immigration status and - this is an important one, limit how sheriff departments treat detainer ...

Editor’s note: This story has been revised to reflect that maximum-security inmates at the Utah State Correctional ... support in prison graduate from the program and get peer-certified. Now he’s ...

About six months after the Department of Justice found Utah State University “non-compliant” with a 2020 resolution over ...

West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...

Andrew Buen was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in February in the 2022 killing of Christian Glass, who was ...

After a judge dismissed a high-profile child ritual abuse case, the sheriff's office issued a scathing rebuke. Now some ...

The 62-year-old woman who died while visiting her husband at Mule Creek State Prison in November was strangled, the Amador County Sheriff’s Office said. Stephanie Diane Brinson’s manner of ...

After decades in law enforcement, Marshall took the helm in January 2023 of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which includes all of the state’s prisons, jails and ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, Ga. — The Hancock County Sheriff's Office arrested several people in connection to a plan to smuggle banned items into the Hancock State Prison, according to a release.