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

The head of West Virginia’s state corrections system, long plagued by overcrowding and inmate deaths, has been tapped to lead ...

NPR first reported on the case of Charles Givens, a disabled inmate at Virginia's Marion Correctional Treatment Center, in ...

The Virginia Department of Corrections is instituting a hiring freeze and working to cut “unnecessary spending” due to the surging costs of inmate health care, according to an internal memo.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond is urging a U.S. District Court to uphold an executive order by President Trump that ...

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of ...

The inmate, Mikal Mahdi, 41, was declared dead shortly after 6 p.m. after a firing squad shot three bullets at a target placed over his heart, the State Department of Corrections said. A judge had ...

An escaped inmate from a Virginia State Prison faces local charges after leading lawmen on a high speed chase on the interstate. Lawmen say the suspect, Jaree Jackson Jr., 28, is charged with being a ...

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