Three Oklahoma State University students plan to travel to the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines, this spring to install a ...

Fresh food was easy to come by when Teri Castle began serving time in the West Virginia Department of Corrections. Women incarcerated at the Lakin Correctional Center had unlimited access to a salad ...

President Donald Trump’s newly installed attorney general is ordering the transfer of a federal inmate to Oklahoma so he can ...

The 60-year-old prisoner is currently serving a life sentence at a Louisiana federal prison for bank robbery. He has filed a ...

A legislative resolution that lays out a settlement between the mental health department and a group that sued the state is ...

Texas has executed a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club.

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...

GUTHRIE — A former nursing home worker has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sending degrading photos and videos of ...

During his State of the State address on Monday, Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-Okla.) discussed the issue of burdensome court costs, ...

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 — ...

In 1885, the Missouri General Assembly, after a recommendation from Gov. Thomas J. Crittenden, decided to build a second penitentiary to relieve overcrowding at the Jefferson City penitentiary ...

Kerry Kreshawn Douglas, 26, pleaded guilty to a second-degree felony sexual assault charge and 54th State District Judge Susan Kelly sentenced him to eight years in prison under the terms of a ...