The concept of lawbreakers being confined in prison as punishment is so ingrained in our way of thinking that it might not even occur to most people that there are other ways of doing things. But in ...

The Department of Justice has released data revealing the amount of sexual victimization in prisons and local jails in the ...

So far, 11 states have carried out 45 executions this year, nearly double the number in 2024, even as public opinion ...

T. Sheri Dickerson was accused in a federal indictment of embezzling more than $3 million in funds meant for social justice ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols was executed by lethal injection Dec. 11 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Nichols, 64, was pronounced dead at 10:39 a.m. He was ...

Patrol canines have bitten incarcerated people in the head, stomach, arms and legs — and in two cases, attacked corrections ...

Families of murder victims Tylik Pugh and Nathaniel Wiggins are enraged Gov. Phil Murphy let their loved ones' killers out of ...

Tens of millions of people with depression aren't properly diagnosed. Stanford researchers show that brain imaging could revolutionize treatment. Researchers at Stanford recently described six ...

The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results ...

Brookville Police have provided more details surrounding the teen who was allegedly tortured and denied food by two women. Sarah Faber, ...

Five California correctional officers who were accused of sexually assaulting incarcerated people over the last dozen years remain employed by the state, according to a new audit from the state ...