The Department of Corrections justified its $553 million request to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Public Safety ...

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

The fire was sparked when an inmate tried to use an electrical outlet as a lighter, according to the president of the ...

Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters is out as the head of the beleaguered agency and her track record was mixed.

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). The announcement ...

A Republican lawmaker from Lane proposed changing the name from Department of Corrections to Department of Corruption ...

A deputy director for South Carolina’s prisons agency is the governor’s pick to lead the department tasked with supervising people completing their sentences outside the razor wire. Gov. Henry ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections announced that an inmate at the Jefferson City Correctional Center died at a Jefferson ...

An inmate at Jefferson City Correctional Center died on Tuesday, according to a Wednesday press release from the Missouri ...

A press freedom group representing the Indiana Capital Chronicle has filed a lawsuit in Marion Superior Court against the Indiana Department of Correction, alleging that the state agency violated ...

Records obtained by CBS Colorado show the Colorado Department of Corrections purchased hundreds of Motorola cameras for the ...

The newspaper, represented by an RCFP attorney, is seeking access to records showing how much the state paid to acquire a new lethal injection drug.