Harold Wayne Nichols, adeath row inmate from Chattanooga, declined on Monday to choose between the electric chair and lethal ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Loved ones of those in the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) are clamoring for change. Dozens rallied outside of the VADOC headquarters in Richmond on Friday, Oct. 24, ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (WGXA) — Nearly 1.4 million Georgians enrolled in federal food assistance will go without benefits starting November 1 due to the government shutdown. In an updated announcement on Friday ...

According to the DOC, Stephen Washington died after a "violent" dispute with a cellmate on Oct. 9. San Antonio woman sentenced for retaliation after dog attack that killed veteran Border Patrol ...

Update as of 10:45 a.m. on Oct. 23: Authorities say Randy Bauman is back in custody. Bauman was arrested around 7 p.m. on Oct. 22 by the Carson City Sheriff’s Office. He was returned to NDOC custody.

TUCSON, Ariz. — An inmate is dead following an officer-involved shooting at a Tucson hospital on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Pima County Sheriff's Department, the officer-involved shooting ...

A lawsuit alleging that the Michigan Department of Corrections instructed guards to use body cameras during routine strip searches at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Washtenaw County ...

PHOENIX — An inmate is dead after a shooting involving a corrections officer with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department at a hospital Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. According to Sheriff Chris ...

BIBB COUNTY, Ga. (WGXA) — Before a Bibb County inmate died by apparent suicide in his jail cell, he was a patient at Piedmont Hospital, then tased and arrested after becoming "combative" with nurses.

An inmate transferred from the Arkansas Department of Corrections to a federal facility in West Virginia earlier this year has returned to Arkansas for good after reaching a settlement with the ...

A corrections officer shot and killed a jail inmate Wednesday afternoon at Banner University Medical Center South, authorities say. The unidentified male inmate had been taken to the hospital near ...

A corrections officer, Amos Nyanway, was charged for supplying an inmate with chicken wings in exchange for money. A corrections officer, Amos Nyanway, is being charged after an investigation found he ...