When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Each year, about 2,475 prisoners return to Milwaukee County. This raises a critical question: Who do we want these ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Martin Kao, convicted of stealing pandemic-era relief funds, was also ordered to pay $13 million in restitution and serve ...

Texas has executed a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club.

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...

Adding Canada would dramatically reshape presidential elections since it would instantly become the largest U.S. state. But is this even "a real thing"? Here's a closer look.

Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run them, saying the state ...

The Hawaii State Legislature has allocated $20 million for the relocation and redevelopment of Kauai Community Correctional ...

On Thursday in Pierre, state senators did something no previous Senate had been willing to do: Endorse a bill to change South Dakota’s unique-in-the-nation felony drug ingestion law. Under the statute ...