Funding through Budget 2025 will deliver 240 new high security beds at Christchurch Men's Prison, along with a new Health Centre and Intervention and ...

Illinois’ prison population continues to shrink, with facilities now having a 26% vacancy rate, leading some of those inside and their advocates to question the state’s plan to build two new prisons.

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.

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

Latin American criminal groups are increasingly using drones to confront security forces, transport illicit goods, and ...

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 chair, a hood over his head.

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

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 ...

Kantwill’s prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised ... Previously, she’s written for Newsweek, Modern ...

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