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 ...

Exclusive: Rock Hill’s James “Jimmy” Robertson has spent 26 years on South Carolina’s death row after he was convicted in ...

The East Feliciana Parish Police Jury allocated nearly $400,000 in federal funds April 21 to various repair and equipment expenses, most of them at the parish jail.

Lawndale Christian Legal Center offers an alternative to prison and helped Shaq Wilson rebuild his life. Now, a new West Side ...

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

The state requires jails to report when they use restraint chairs. For nearly 900 cases from 2019 to 2023, Cook County Jail ...

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 ...