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State leaders on Friday announced they will significantly stiffen penalties for inmates who assault staff members

Johnny Ray Priester, 40, has been in the county jail since May 29, 2012

Billy Ray Irick would be the first inmate Tennessee has executed since 2009

Pope Francis’ decree that the death penalty is “inadmissible” in all cases could pose a dilemma for Roman Catholic politicians and judges in the United States

The Tennessee-based company CoreCivic is one of the nation’s largest private prison operators

Two former inmates at a Maine prison say a CO ignored another inmate’s repeated requests to be moved before he was found dead

Hog-tying is specifically prohibited under agency policy, according to authorities, and parts of the incident were captured on a surveillance camera at the institution

The objections from two more pharmaceutical companies come as the state prepares to execute its first inmate in nearly 21 years

Death row inmate David Braden wants his court-ordered payments adjusted, saying he’s so poor he can’t afford new shoes or boots

Native American inmates and defendants in Oklahoma have already begun appealing their convictions or asking for their cases to be dismissed on the same jurisdictional grounds