At the center of the conflict is Public Law 280, a federal law that shifts jurisdiction on some Indian reservations from the ...

Innovative program arrives at Parnall Correctional Facility in Jackson, aiming to keep eventual parolees behind the wheel and ...

Attorneys and advocates are concerned about Wisconsin prisons' policy of shredding legal mail, saying it affects their ...

The more preparedness, suggested Parnall warden Noah Nagy ... the original Jackson State Prison, with sliding barred doors. The other four are dormitory-style, but signs across the grounds ...

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977. Sigmon's attorney called it a "bloody spectacle." ...

Newsom on Monday plans to propose a new parole board process that could clear a path for more prisoners to have their ...

Recently, the Justice Department ended a long-running incentive pay plan cutting officers' and other employees' pay by up to 25%.

All of these possessions would eventually be buried under mountains of trash when my mother started hoarding. Twenty years ...

The 2007 shooting of a Texas game warden left a months-old son without his father and ... where there’d been reports of nighttime shootings at traffic signs — something not terribly uncommon in rural ...

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

Records show one Oklahoma women’s prison rarely substantiated abuse allegations or forwarded cases for criminal prosecution.