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 ...

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

A few more details are known about South Carolina's firing squad as the state prepares to carry out its second execution by ...

Some people incarcerated in Maryland’s prisons may have a chance to have their sentences reduced through a bill being considered now. The Second Look Act would allow younger offenders who have served ...

Approximately 700 inmates were on an initial list of prisoners who could be released, though the number to be discharged would likely be smaller, state Department of Corrections and Community ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas’ death row, has died ...