As the punishing Mississippi sun baked the grounds of one of America’s most notorious prisons, a wheelchair-bound man was so ...

A groundbreaking lawsuit representing prisoners forced to work in “inhumane” conditions could finally put an end to Angola ...

U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson requires Angola prison officials to monitor temperatures every 30 minutes. When heat index hits 88, Farm Line workers get regular breaks, ice, water, and shade, the ...

In Brazil, an inmates escape attempt went wrong when he got stuck in a prison wall. Firefighters had to drill him out safely ...

BLAIR COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — The warden of the Blair County Prison resigned from her position Monday, days after an inmate was recaptured in an escape attempt. Blair County Commissioner Dave Kessling ...

Warden’s office building at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, SD (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) The South Dakota Department of Corrections has replaced the penitentiary ...

The leaders began to rotate through after a Noem-initiated shakeup in 2021 led to the ouster of several long-serving prison administrators, including then-warden Darin Young. Bittinger had served ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two years after approving a tough-on-crime sentencing law, South Dakota is scrambling to deal with the price tag for that legislation: Housing thousands of additional inmates ...

South Dakota’s laws mean more people are in prison. South Dakota’s incarceration rate of 370 per 100,000 people is an outlier in the Upper Midwest.

South Dakota is on a path to invest $2 billion into its corrections facilities in the next decade as a result of its stringent crime laws.