The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (NCDAC) is beginning to reduce operations at its Craggy Correctional Center ...

Also this week, legal challenges to halt Tony Carruthers' execution saw a flurry of filings as his execution draws near.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the sentence of election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters following pressure from ...

A former Marcy Correctional Facility officer was sentenced Thursday in Oneida County Court to four years in prison for the ...

Dustin "Dusty" Turner is being released from Middle River Regional Jail in Virginia after the state's parole board issued a ...

A Walker County judge has ruled Sheriff Nick Smith controls hiring inside the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, but county ...

A former Marcy Correctional Facility officer who agreed to testify against his coworkers in a murder trial has been sentenced ...

With one former Mid-State correctional officer pleading guilty and one more being sentenced, the saga of more than two dozen ...

This story explores the challenges faced by the Colorado legislature as they tackle budget deficits and Medicaid woes.

Phillip Vance Smith II is serving a life sentence at Neuse Correctional in Goldsboro, but he has published stories in Slate ...