A Birmingham man has been charged with multiple crimes after authorities say he was caught trying to smuggle contraband – ...

More than 35 years after they killed their parents in Beverly Hills, Lyle and Erik Menendez are closer than ever to freedom.

Cesar Hernandez, a prison inmate convicted of murder, allegedly was involved in a shootout with Mexican authorities months ...

Trump administration will soon examine states not complying with its mandate to strip all federal prisons of gender reassignment surgeries and treatments, as well as housing based on biological sex.

Now, Robinson is appealing his prison term at the Court of Appeal with the hearing beginning today [April 11]. The prisoner ...

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the federal government ...

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to die 20 years ago for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. He will be the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes ...

A resentencing hearing is set to be held for Erik and Lyle Menendez on Friday in Los Angeles. Follow Newsweek's live blog for updates.

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - The concern surrounding understaffing at Arizona state prisons has grown ever since a federal judge ordered the Arizona Department of Corrections to fix staffing shortages ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, is to be executed at 6pm (10pm UK time) at a prison in state capital Columbia for the murder of 56-year-old ...

The corrections officer strike ended several weeks ago, but its impacts continue to be felt. National Guard deployment costs ...