A Westminster committee said lives are being increasingly put at risk by the Government’s historic failures to increase ...

Illinois’ prison population continues to shrink, with facilities now having a 26% vacancy rate, leading some of those inside ...

Gov. Tony Evers, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos need to find agreement for Wisconsin's troubled corrections system.

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad March 7 for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents, David ...

Three volunteer corrections staff members will point rifles at Sigmon's chest and fire live rounds as he sits strapped to a ...

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say ...

Prison staff will perform a final inspection of the state's ... The protocol closely mirrors that of Alabama, the only state ...

“The defendant’s repeated choice to threaten violence, to include threats of murder and rape, against persons in the public ...

Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way ...

An eight-episode season brings the realities of prison life — past and present — to listeners beyond the Walla Walla ...