Virginia's juvenile justice director is raising questions about how one legislator obtained information about the facility through youth formerly incarcerated there.

Many of us work to make money – to pay bills, as the old saying goes. Others say they enjoy what they do and define ...

Virginia’s prisons have been fighting allegations that they callously lock away prisoners for years in solitary confinement.

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

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

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 ...

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