Lawrence Taylor, already serving time for bank robberies, will spend life in prison after fatally stabbing his cellmate 43 ...

The Pardon and Parole Board voted 4-1 to deny recommending clemency for Wendell Grissom, 57, who turned down an opportunity to speak to the board via a video link from the State Penitentiary in ...

All are alleged members of the Islamic State group, captured during the final days of the extremists’ so-called caliphate declared in large parts of Iraq and Syria. The Gweiran Prison ...

Josh Shapiro’s new state budget proposal included plans to close two state prisons — a plan that is not sitting well with the union representing the corrections officers working at those ...

Justice Lassiter died by suicide in March 2023, more than two years into a seven-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark. If he'd made parole as soon as he was eligible, he would have ...

At least 200 acres of land inside the boundaries of the Wind River Reservation are also earmarked to provide revenue for corrections. Grist has identified nearly 2 million acres of state trust lands — ...

Following what New York state corrections officers say is a surge in incidents in which prison staff have fallen ill after exposure to inmates suspected of drug overdoses, state Sen. George ...

The decision to halt foreign aid abruptly cut U.S. funding to the prison guards overseeing the camp, leading some to stop showing up for work, according to one current and one former State ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order reversing former President Joe Biden's ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Along with this, Trump also signed an executive ...