A convicted felon being held at the Utah County Jail is accused of attempting to provoke a riot, assaulting two deputies in ...

Inmate firefighters ... have banned forced labor in state prisons. Only a handful of states have abolished forced prison labor: Colorado, Vermont, Nebraska, Utah, Alabama, Oregon and Tennessee.

UTICA, NY (WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) — The family of a Mid-State Correctional Facility inmate who was being treated at the Wynn Hospital has said he has died. The family of 22-year-old Edward Sholtz of Syracuse ...

Utica, N.Y. — An inmate who was badly injured last month at a Central New York state prison has died, his family said. The inmate, Edward Sholtz, 22, died Sunday at Wynn Hospital in Utica ...

MICHIGAN CITY — Sentencing is scheduled for an Indiana State Prison inmate who suddenly agreed to serve life without parole for killing a correctional officer from LaPorte. Ty’Metri Campbell ...

Two death row inmates have rejected the clemency granted to them by Joe Biden, opting to take their chance in the courts. Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis filed emergency motions at a court in ...

Utah woman has been sentenced to prison after being convicted of the forcible sexual abuse of a 14-year-old boy, according to the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office.

As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by the California ... Participants supports state, local and federal government agencies when they respond to natural disasters.

(Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Criminal justice reform advocates and a state senator have proposed a new program that would allow elderly New Jersey inmates to seek early release on the ...

have refused to sign paperwork that would reduce their sentences to life without parole and filed emergency motions in the state’s southern ... out of the 40 federal inmates on death row.

Two of the 37 inmates on federal death row whose sentences were commuted to life without parole last month by President Biden are rejecting clemency. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis ...

But legally their consent is not required because the Supreme Court ruled in 1927 that the president can commute a death sentence without an inmate's consent. "While it’s understandable that Mr ...