Without Florida, the national execution rate would be like an average year, with fewer than 30 executions across the country.

The ruling led to an unusual flurry of filings late on Christmas Eve when it appeared the state Department of Corrections ...

A restaurant inside California State Prison Solano provides a one-of-a-kind training program that provides opportunity and a ...

That Biden commuted those federal sentences at all was somewhat surprising. He had campaigned on ending the death penalty, but once in office he sat on the issue, only turning to it a month after ...

Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, criticized the network’s decision to remove her reporting from Sunday’s edition ...

Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart speaks out against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's prison privileges while ...

Advocates and lawmakers are calling for the reinstatement of an independent oversight body to investigate and help prevent deaths, as well as changes to medical and geriatric parole.

Anthony "Lil Ant" Arocha, who has 15 prior convictions, apologized to his victim in court before receiving his prison ...

Explore how fresh food and shared meals shape community and wellbeing inside a unique prison unit and gain hands-on qualitative research and data analysis skills. This project examines how access to ...

In South Carolina, officials thwarted an unusual prison smuggling attempt involving crab legs, steak, Old Bay seasoning, cigarettes, and marijuana — contraband they admitted was unlike anything they ...

Within days of her arrival at a Texas prison camp in early August, Ghislaine Maxwell gushed in emails to her friends and family over the cleanliness and safety of her new surroundings. “The ...