Florida’s state legislature passed two controversial bills changing how the state handles capital punishment, also known as the death penalty.

Daniel Perry, a U.S. Army sergeant, was found guilty of murdering a Garrett Foster, a Black Lives Matter protestor, during a 2020 incident by a Texas jury.

Disgraced ex-lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who was found guilty in early March of killing his wife and son, has been moved to a max-security prison within the state.

After serving 17 years in prison, Raashed Hall is turning his life around with a new invention he designed while incarcerated.

A Redding man has been sentenced to almost 80 years in state prison after reportedly being found guilty of multiple violent felonies.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Tuesday reversed its own legal opinion and said it would allow federal inmates released on home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic to stay out of prison. The decision announced by Attorney General...

At a Georgia state House of Representatives hearing on prison conditions in September, a corrections officer called in to testify, interrupting his shift to tell lawmakers how dire conditions had become. On a "good day," he told lawmakers, he had...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing a Justice Department lawsuit over Alabama's notoriously violent prisons, state lawmakers on Monday began a special session on a $1. 3 billion construction plan that would use federal pandemic relief funds to pay part of...