The Acting Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Sylvester Ndidi, has announced plans to develop an ...

A circle of criminal justice advocates have long pushed to create an independent body to monitor the Arizona Department of ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

St. Louis activist Khanika Harper found the perfect way to marry her passion for justice with the power of love: She became a ...

A state board found last year that the county repeatedly failed to meet minimum staffing requirements at the facility.

State authorities said this week that they were still finalizing a re-inspection of Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey. A judge is waiting on those results before deciding whether the county will be ...

One month into the 89th legislative session, all Texas lawmakers have been assigned to committees. All bills must be ...

Two men convicted of murder, including one who spent more than 25 years on Death Row, were executed by lethal injection ...

A grand jury in Oneida County has handed up charges against correction officers involved in the Dec. 9 beating of an inmate ...

Governor Newsom has previously vetoed two similar bills. Governor Newsom is threatening to veto an expansion of California’s ...

Nagpur: The efforts of the prison and correctional service department of Maharashtra to implement the e-mulakat system has ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.