In North Carolina, Ernest D. Pheasant Sr. was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of killing his wife, Marie ...

Over the years, law enforcement errors have allowed convicts and pre-trial detainees to walk free, with two such incidents happening in Clayton County in the past three years.

Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South ...

Republican lawmakers are enacting two border security measures that some Democrats contend amount to "conscripting'' local ...

Kathan Guzman was convicted last year of murdering 19-year-old Dalia Grayson and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

For years, families have complained of cruelty from the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) when their incarcerated loved ones ...

Nada. Nil. Zip. Zero. So went the discussions in the just-concluded session of the Legislature regarding the possible ...

The DOC says its care conforms to "professional and community standards." But by the time Terry Jackson was scheduled for ...

The proposal to close five state prisons as part of the upcoming state budget has local and state lawmakers deeply concerned ...

Ossoff Press U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is introducing a bipartisan bill to help safeguard human rights in Georgia’s prisons. Today, Sens. Ossoff and John Kennedy (R-LA) introduced the bipartisan Family ...

South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the murder of a public safety officer, but the only ...