Three corrections officers charged with seriously injuring an inmate during a beating at Attica state prison in 2011 have pleaded guilty. – Corrections officials say they had been suspended without…
Authorities in north Idaho say an inmate jailed on burglary charges escaped by working his way through a ceiling crawl space in a utility room to reach the lobby. –…
Chelsea Manning, the convicted national-security secrets leaker, has been approved for hormone therapy for transition to a woman as in inmate at the Army’s Fort Leavenworth prison, according to a…
The mother of a suicidal New York City inmate who hanged himself in a Rikers Island solitary confinement cell in 2013 after repeatedly threatening to do so — and was…
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan 29 (Reuters) – After years of controversy and legal trouble because of overcrowding in California’s mammoth prison system, the state’s inmate population dipped below the maximum level…
McALESTER, Okla. — Death row inmate Richard Glossip described Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court order suspending his impending execution as “so unbelievable.” “I’ve felt amazing today,” Glossip said hours after he…
A man convicted in the killing of a fellow inmate has been executed in Georgia despite claims by his lawyers that he was intellectually disabled. Warren Lee Hill was put…
Texas’ top criminal court called off Wednesday’s scheduled execution of a death-row inmate linked to five killings in Houston, though attorneys said the court didn’t immediately explain its decision. The…