Numerous officers of the Massachusetts Department of Correction filled rows of a Worcester courtroom on Thursday to witness the arraignments of three inmates accused in connection with a brutal attack ...

Gov. Henry McMaster has tapped a North Charleston native to head the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has announced the appointment of Daniel Dickerson and L.E. Townsend as deputy division directors of the Correctional Institutions Division, effective February ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has picked Jake Gadsden Jr. as his nominee to be the director of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services (PPP).

Former Tennessee Department of Correction employee Rustin Bowen is convicted of charges involving multiple child victims.

The legislation follows an ongoing federal lawsuit alleging inmates at a Mississippi prison were exposed to dangerous chemicals, with some later contracting late-stage cancer.

Arica Elizabeth Siegel has a criminal history dating back nearly 19 years. She is wanted for a probation violation and new charges, too.

In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential areas" from the freeze.

Fewer people died inside the prisons than in 2023, when prisoners were five times as likely to die as the national average.

A Columbia County inmate has died in state custody. James Adam Wright Jr. died Friday, January 17, 2025 at the Larry B. Norris, said Rand Champion, Communications director for the Arkansas Department ...

A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers wants more oversight over the prison system — as deaths in custody reach their ...

Governor Henry McMaster announced the nomination of a new director of the South Carolina Department of Probations, Pardons ...