The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were shaved by guards in ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate will be in federal court Wednesday trying to convince a judge that the state is ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction will be reducing the number of inmates at privately-run Trousdale Turner in the wake ...

Director Wynnie Testamark described the request as a “strategic investment in safety, rehabilitation and human dignity,” but ...

A former Fulton County jail guard has been indicted on federal civil rights charges after prosecutors said she used her Taser ...

Escaped Arkansas inmate Grant Hardin, known as “Devil in the Ozarks,” has been taking into custody, according to the Izard County Sheriff’s Office.

Cazenovia native Anne Burrell, a celebrity chef and Food Network star, has died. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders has been put to death by lethal injection in the state's ...

A livestock seller tends to the flock of goat while waiting for customers at a livestock market outside Dubai, United Arab ...

Todd Lyons, the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended his tactics last week week against criticism that ...