A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers wants more oversight over the prison system — as deaths in custody reach their ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

An Alabama inmate set to die next month is asking to be sent back to a Michigan prison. The state doesn't want him back.

Staff vacancies require corrections officers to work at least 16- or 24-hour shifts, and the mandatory overtime takes a toll.

Gov. Henry McMaster has tapped a North Charleston native to head the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has picked Jake Gadsden Jr. as his nominee to be the director of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services (PPP).

Former Tennessee Department of Correction employee Rustin Bowen is convicted of charges involving multiple child victims.

Plaintiffs allege that Marshall has behaved “suspiciously” in the case centered on a trust fund named for the first woman ...

Following years of decline, the state's prison population jumped by 8% in 2022, and signs indicate it's still on the rise.

The Missouri Department of Corrections announced that an inmate at the Jefferson City Correctional Center died at a Jefferson ...

Site work started on Wednesday on the location of the proposed men’s prison in Lincoln County. Republican Sen. Kevin Jensen said during the ...

The state's private prisons see higher numbers of deaths and sexual assaults while providing less opportunity for support and education.