A state board found last year that the county repeatedly failed to meet minimum staffing requirements at the facility.

A St. Tammany Parish judge has scheduled a condemned killer to be executed March 18, the day after another man convicted for a separate murder will be put to death.

A New York doctor's alleged decision to send abortion pills to patients in Texas and Louisiana has pitted the Empire State's ...

A former correction officer at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Westchester will now see the other side of a prison cell for his role in a scheme to smuggle contraband cellphones to inmates, ...

In civil suit set for Dec. 1, the family of Mark and Jacob Iskander says it is entitled to know her financial worth.

Gov. Newsom's office said he would again veto a bill that sought to restrict state prison officials' cooperation with federal ...

We haven’t seen this kind of disparity in state laws around human rights since the Civil War," one legal expert told Jezebel.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is vowing to reject a bill which would limit cooperation between state prisons and federal ...

Pharmacist Natalie Cochran killed her husband Michael with an insulin injection so he wouldn't learn about $2 million Ponzi scheme.

Alabama State Rep. Rolanda Hollis introduced HB138 on Feb. 6, which Hollis Hollis argued would help both parents and children ...

The Marshall Project spotlights local officials who see President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportation as an answer to ...