For pregnant women who are spending time in prison, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintains specialty programs and ...

Lawrence Brewer was executed in 2011 for his role in the murder of James Byrd Jr, but it was his last meal request that ...

New allegations are detailed in a lawsuit claiming a Houston man was beaten to death by guards in a private Louisiana jail.

The warden overseeing the cushy prison camp where Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell was recently transferred ...

Nearly 40,000 prisoners in England and Wales have been granted early release under the government’s scheme to tackle ...

In Texas, which has the second-largest population of immigrants living illegally in the country — with more than 1.6 million ...

A man convicted of raping and killing his neighbor has put to death in a record 15th execution this year in Florida.

A San Marcos man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for sexually abusing a child for years, starting when they were ...

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