The Virginia Department of Corrections will be testing drug and contraband scanners to see if they can reduce overdose deaths in their facilities.

Brittany Hall, 31, allegedly "made sexual contact" by touching their breasts, penetrating them or making oral contact with their genitalia, officials said.

A special prosecutor has been tapped to investigate a Harlem man’s death during an apparent altercation with correction ...

A federal grand jury this week indicted former corrections officer Alex Christian Andrews on charges of federal program ...

Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick has again been assigned as the special prosecutor to lead an investigation ...

About 20 correction officers have been fired for participating in unsanctioned strikes. The Department of Corrections and ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of condemned man Brad ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murder is scheduled to be executed by firing squad Friday night. Brad Sigmon beat his ...

Albany, N.Y. — Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick was appointed Thursday as a special prosecutor to ...

When the clock strikes 6 Friday evening, a South Carolina man will walk into the death chamber, be strapped into a chair and have a target placed over his heart.

Brittany Hall, a former correctional officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, has been indicted on five counts of sexual abuse charges after allegedly abusing four inmates while ...

Unless Gov. Brad Little vetoes a bill that passed the Idaho Legislature, Idaho could become the only state to fatally shoot ...