Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled Dec. 11 execution date.

After reviewing security camera footage, investigators observed Collier, a correctional officer, remove property from an inmate's currency bag and place it in her pocket. She was arrested and booked ...

It’s a maddening thing, when you can sense that you’re being lied to. Sandy Ray, an Alabama woman on the phone with the state’s Department of Corrections to find out more details about the incident ...

Lauren Wachtler responds to a recent op-ed supporting mandatory prison visits for judges, drawing on the experience of her ...

Staff awareness was widespread: colleagues referred to victims as Husband's "wives", and a 1970s search of the kitchens that ...

Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in an Alabama jail cell, waiting for court-ordered psychiatric treatment ...