The year-and-a half-long fight to release a video showing correction officers using force on an inmate who ended up dying may ...

Phillip Vance Smith II is serving a life sentence at Neuse Correctional in Goldsboro, but he has published stories in Slate ...

Also this week, legal challenges to halt Tony Carruthers' execution saw a flurry of filings as his execution draws near.

The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (NCDAC) is beginning to reduce operations at its Craggy Correctional Center, in preparation for a closure.

A Walker County judge has ruled Sheriff Nick Smith controls hiring inside the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, but county ...

Hoosier counties cannot continue to serve as the state prison system’s waiting room, while the state pays less than half of what it takes to house a convict.

A Mississippi appeals court has wiped out a $52,433.85 attorney-fee award against the state prison agency, ruling the trial ...

Forms of insecurity, particularly kidnapping for ransom, are pervasive across the country, but armed violence is unfolding in four main theaters. In the northeast, two jihadi groups, Boko Haram and ...

A bipartisan proposal working its way through the state Legislature aims to help first responders who need treatment for ...

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Utica, N.Y. — A former New York state corrections officer has reached a plea deal with prosecutors weeks before he was set to ...