Feb. 7—charleston — Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Thursday that West Virginia had signed a letter of intent to join the 287 ...

A 60-year-old inmate died Thursday at a Lincoln corrections facility, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said.

Teen pleads guilty to murder: A teenager admitted Thursday that he fatally shot 15-year-old Alexcia “Lexi” Lynch last summer ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier raped and shot her ...

Plea documents in the case against a former Alabama jailer charged in the death of an inmate says officers intentionally kept ...

"That is a huge problem," the preservation director for the Vermont Historic Sites said of how the Bennington Battle Monument ...

Officials with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections say an investigation is underway after a convicted murderer died at SCI Somerset earlier this week.Aut ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing to close two state prisons and two community corrections centers in a cost-saving measure that ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in ...

Two more men died at the Shelby County Jail this week, Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said Friday night. The deaths make four in a week.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state's suddenly busy death chamber.