The House passed a bill Thursday that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical ...

In the bill, the Mississippi Department of Health will be tasked with conducting a “comprehensive correctional services ...

Inmates can often be seen picking up trash along roads in Mississippi, but they could soon be working on the roads as well if ...

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

We’re following up on the Montana Department of Corrections efforts to relieve overcrowding at the state prison.We recently ...

The funding bill limits regional correctional facilities to spending no more than $32.71 daily on housing inmates.

Following the Mississippi House’s passage of a bill to expand gambling, the Mississippi Senate passed legislation Thursday to ...

A Chattanooga man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for traveling across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she has deployed National Guard troops to state prisons amid a labor strike by corrections officers NEW YORK -- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has deployed National ...

ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Wednesday to activate the New York National Guard to heighten security in at least 33 state prisons where correction officers have been on ...

Where Mississippi State women's basketball stands in March Madness brackets ...