A former substitute teacher in Mississippi was sentenced on sexual battery and child exploitation charges. Attorney General ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections announced it will reopen investigations into several prison deaths thanks to reporting by news organizations.

A former West Tallahatchie School District substitute teacher was sentenced to 25 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections after she was found ...

Christopher Boose awoke to see a sign for the paraplegic unit at the hospital where he had arrived five hours earlier, ...

The man credited with turning around one of America’s most dangerous prisons had a nearly 90-minute session with South Dakota ...

The U.S. Supreme Court and Mississippi Supreme Court denied last-minute emergency petitions to stay the execution of death ...

The power to determine who is in charge of Arkansas prisons lies with the Board of Corrections, not Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

This was Mississippi's second execution of the year and the 38th nationwide. Anti-death penalty protesters gathered outside the prison and the governor's mansion prior to the execution. For the second ...

An investigation into a shooting at the Issaquena County Correctional Facility is underway, but local investigators have yet to confirm details nearly a week later.