An Alabama inmate set to die next month is asking to be sent back to a Michigan prison. The state doesn't want him back.

Former Tennessee Department of Correction employee Rustin Bowen is convicted of charges involving multiple child victims.

Gov. Henry McMaster has tapped a North Charleston native to head the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has announced the appointment of Daniel Dickerson and L.E. Townsend as deputy division directors of the Correctional Institutions Division, effective February ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has picked Jake Gadsden Jr. as his nominee to be the director of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services (PPP).

In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential areas" from the freeze.

Fewer people died inside the prisons than in 2023, when prisoners were five times as likely to die as the national average.

A Columbia County inmate has died in state custody. James Adam Wright Jr. died Friday, January 17, 2025 at the Larry B. Norris, said Rand Champion, Communications director for the Arkansas Department ...

A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers wants more oversight over the prison system — as deaths in custody reach their ...

Governor Henry McMaster announced the nomination of a new director of the South Carolina Department of Probations, Pardons ...

Following years of decline, the state's prison population jumped by 8% in 2022, and signs indicate it's still on the rise.

The state's private prisons see higher numbers of deaths and sexual assaults while providing less opportunity for support and education.