The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has left her position amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement ...

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President Donald Trump's wide-ranging executive orders on his first day in office included one that will make sure Oklahoma has the drugs needed to carry out executions.

More than 1,000 California inmates have been fighting the wildfires, a controversial practice that dates back to 1915 and results from a complex intersection of public safety, labor economics, and ...

The case centered around a correction officer suspected of having illegal fireworks shipped to the jail under inmates' names.

State jobs are known for competitive benefits and enrollment in the nation’s largest state public pension plan.

Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

The Department of Corrections justified its $553 million request to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Public Safety ...

Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

A man who admitted to abusing dozens of local children has died. Louis Van Wie died on Jan. 14, the New York State Department of Corrections said. He was 82 years old.

For the third session in a row, Montana lawmakers are considering a bill intended to allow the state to again administer the ...

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate set to be killed in the state's first execution of 2025 are arguing that he actually belongs in the custody of another state.