A new law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of survivors of domestic violence. Most are still behind bars.

Irene Schroeder, 22, was executed at Rockview for the killing of a corporal in what has since become the Pennsylvania State ...

Rockview state prison, Pennsylvania’s second-oldest, has officially ceased operations after 111 years in Centre County. Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration pushed the closure through despite bipartisan ...

A new prison oversight pilot program is launching at possibly four state prisons replacing legislation that sparked emotional debate on Wednesday and arriving just days before the documentary “The ...

“This echoes the kinds of policy changes and the renaissance in efforts to improve prison conditions and to make access to ...

A Denver judge ruled that the Colorado Department of Corrections has been violating an amendment to the state constitution by ...

The Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit from a fired state prison worker. The state fired the corrections worker because she allowed an inmate to use a cell phone, but she claims her ...

The fiscal note throws a wrench into the debate. Legislators want to be tough on crime, but also worry about the costs, with ...

"The Alabama Solution" is what happens when you let inmates tell the unapologetic truth about their living conditions and the ...

The Lenovo Center’s new View Bar is set to open Tuesday for the first time when NC State hosts UNC in men’s basketball, Hurricanes Holdings CEO Brian Fork announced. The View Bar is located between ...

BOSTON — The former president of the union representing Massachusetts state troopers and the union’s former lobbyist were sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $86,000 in restitution ...

After winning an appeal that overturned three of his convictions, a former State Police union president was resentenced Wednesday to two years in federal prison for kickback schemes, six months ...