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MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Alabama would be the first state to carry out an execution this year if it proceeds with plans to put to death a 51-year-old inmate convicted of the shotgun ...

An Orange County, California, man suspected of murder has become the first person to die from COVID-19 while ...

WASHINGTON—A federal prisoner scheduled to be executed has tested positive for coronavirus, his lawyer said Thursday. The Bureau ...

The federal government prepared Thursday to execute an inmate who was condemned for kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old ...

A Georgia prison deputy who suddenly collapsed due to a cardiac problem, and was helped by three inmates ...

An inmate at a Connecticut prison was confirmed dead this week after he was found with a cloth ...

LOS ANGELES—Two groups of inmates at a Los Angeles County jail tried to infect themselves with the coronavirus ...

An inmate at a Chicago jail on Saturday posed as another inmate who was due to be discharged, ...

WASHINGTON—A convicted drug trafficker serving a 5.5-year sentence is facing new charges after escaping from a federal prison ...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of committing a second-degree murder, just one day after he was ...

A 47-year-old inmate in Louisiana has become the first to die from COVID-19 in a federal prison, officials ...

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the conditions at Mississippi state prisons after a ...

A Georgia inmate was executed on Wednesday evening in the 1994 slaying of a store clerk after the ...

A female detention officer was fired after officials found love letters she was exchanging with a male inmate. ...

Two of the five inmates who escaped Monday night from the Nash County jail in North Carolina have ...

SOUTH BEND, Indiana—A man who pleaded guilty to the beating death of a pregnant mother in South Bend, ...

A Texas death row inmate who murdered his estranged wife's parents and brother was executed by lethal injection ...

NEW YORK—An inmate whose life sentence was commuted thanks in part to the efforts of Kim Kardashian West ...

A jail inmate who escaped from authorities and tried hitchhiking along a highway didn’t enjoy freedom for long ...

Alabama authorities are searching for an escaped prisoner after a mass jailbreak involving 12 men, the local Sheriff's ...

No late appeals have been filed on behalf of a Texas inmate convicted of killing another man in ...

A convicted serial killer who faced the death penalty in two states became the first inmate to be ...

Police searched Friday for an inmate they say walked away from a work-release program while serving jail time ...

Warren Lee Hill, whose IQ is 70, is set to be executed at 7 p.m. Jan. 27 at ...

NEW YORK—About a dozen advocates for the fair treatment of the incarcerated gathered on Thursday, demanding that prosecutions ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio has directed a task force to reform how New York City’s corrections system treats ...