Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

On October 23, 2025, the State of Alabama executed death-row inmate Anthony Boyd, 54, by means of nitrogen gas—a method ...

She connected with young inmates like few could and in 2015 was judged the international correctional officer of the year. But she made enemies along the way.

A South Carolina inmate who killed a man, burned his eyes with cigarettes and then painted “catch me if u can” on the wall ...

ATMORE — The State of Alabama carried out its fifth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Anthony Todd Boyd to death by ...

"This Court thus turns its back on Boyd and on the Eighth Amendment’s guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment," the ...

Wayward is a Netflix thriller inspired by real accounts from the troubled teen industry. Take a deep dive into the town of ...

The Alabama Sentencing Commission said Friday that Alabama’s already overcrowded prisons could see inmate populations rise by nearly a third by 2030 due to new punitive laws passed by the Legislature.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two of them American and one Japanese – for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of ...

IN A LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR, CORRECTIONS OFFICIALS CONTEND CLOSING THE PRISON WILL SAVE TAXPAYERS MONEY, IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR INMATES, REDUCE OVERTIME AND EXPAND SERVICES. THE UNION THAT ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. The work by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries about how the immune system avoids attacking ...