Minnesota is the best state for summer road trips, with its festivals and fairs and options for outdoor recreation, a report from WalletHub says.

Ex-corrections officer Gilchrist Fernandez received no jail or prison time at a sentencing hearing Wednesday for two felony fireworks offenses to which he pleaded guilty Jan. 29.

Two weeks before he was to be released from prison, Patrick Odale was pepper-sprayed, held down and killed by corrections officers, according to a lawsuit filed this week. The mother of his ...

A 56-year-old man died at Maine State Prison on June 22. The death was attended by medical staff and reported to state authorities.

Marcy, N.Y. — State prison officials have replaced the superintendent at a Central New York prison where guards fatally beat an inmate earlier this year. Thomas Delmar started May 12 as the new ...

SPARTA, Ga. — A Hancock State Prison inmate was stabbed to death Tuesday in the prison yard, according to Hancock County Coroner Dontrelle Andrews.

South Dakota's inmate mortality rate continues to climb as the state reports its fifth death in 30 days.

Salvador Aceves, president of Regis University, in Denver, has been named president of the University of San Francisco.

A Georgia prison inmate, just weeks away from his release date, is dead, and now his family wants to know why. Dominique Cole died on Sunday inside the Wilcox State Prison. “And within nine days ...

An inmate has been convicted in the fatal beating of his cellmate at a South Jersey state prison. Anthony Cole, 39, formerly of South Plainfield, was found guilty of first-degree murder at a ...