Two violent deaths at a state prison near Stockton have brought attention to conjugal visits, a practice many states have ...

In 1995, a NDSU student studying electrical engineering cut telephone cables in order to rob an electronics store, and then ...

In 1995, a NDSU student studying electrical engineering cut telephone cables in order to rob an electronics store, and then ...

The Oxford non-profit art organization, VOX PRESS, has released a collection of prison writings, “Unit 29: Writing from ...

South Carolina became the first state since 2010 to execute an inmate by firing squad. Is the method legal in Mississippi?

It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

Whetstone, 71, was serving a life sentence for capital murder at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. This is not Whetstone's first escape from prison, as he previously escaped from the Sunflower ...

Nevin Whetstone, who is serving life for the 1983 murder of Loretta Darlene Steele in Lee County, escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary sometime earlier in the week. Mississippi Today ...