Certain units at multiple Arizona state prisons will be under stricter measures through Easter weekend due to a recent uptick ...

According to sources familiar with the talks, Hochul wants to allow some violent offenders to be eligible for the merit time program – which currently allows non-violent offenders to get time off ...

A Democratic governor is being blasted for her plan to release possibly hundreds of state inmates as a prison staffing ...

Dr. Michael Seale, chief medical officer for the Department of Corrections, talked about the broad challenges facing the ...

Brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez, jailed for life for the 1989 murders of their parents in Beverly Hills, are set to be given ...

The lawsuit, filed with the help of the Uptown People’s Law Center, claims the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) relies on isolation, violence and discipline in place of actual mental health ...

Erik and Lyle Menendez have lived more time behind bars than free. Since their arrest over 35 years ago for the double murder ...

A California prosecutor is accusing his state of “prioritizing the criminals” over a $239 million taxpayer-funded prison ...

As the state resumes executions of death row prisoners, a bill in the legislature aims to cut back on the time people convicted of crimes can spend trying to reduce or overturn their sentences, and it ...

A prosecutor in California slammed a plan to build a rehabilitation center to replace San Quentin State Prison, saying the ...