Union leader for prison guards calls for change

An innocent man spent decades in prison for a Black couple’s murder. Nearly 40 years later, police say they found the killer
Dennis Perry’s DNA wasn’t a match for evidence in the murder of a Black couple nearly 40 years ago. Why an innocent man ...
Husbands who abused adopted sons in 'house of horrors' slapped with massive prison sentences
A Georgia couple that pleaded guilty to sexually abusing their two adopted sons will now spend 100 years in prison without ...
Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions
The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on ...
Hochul Orders Firing of 14 Prison Workers After Fatal Attack on Inmate
Video of the deadly assault on Robert L. Brooks was “horrific,” “disturbing” and “devastating,” a lawyer for his family said ...
Most death-row inmates who received a reprieve from Biden are housed in Indiana prison
President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 men on federal death row. The majority of them are held in Terre Haute ...
Legendary cartel drug lord Fabio Ochoa Vasquez released from U.S. prison, deported to Colombia, freed
Fabio Ochoa arrived at Bogota's El Dorado airport on a deportation flight on Monday, wearing a grey sweatshirt and carrying ...
New York Gov. Hochul orders prison staffers involved in inmate's deadly beating to be fired
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered the firing of more than a dozen prison staffers over a beating that resulted in the ...
Prison guards' use of force is rarely deemed excessive by federal courts and judges, analysis shows
Supreme Court standards prohibit officer use of force only if it is "malicious and sadistic." Courts rarely rule that extreme ...
Adnan Syed’s lawyers seek to reduce his prison sentence
Attorneys for Adnan Syed, whose legal case was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial,” are seeking to have his prison ...