The Idaho Department of Corrections is taking steps to reconfigure a portion of the state's largest prison to prepare to ...

A new law will require the Department of Corrections to help state inmates get some form of state identification before they are released. The law, which went into effect in January, requires the ...

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...

Idaho House lawmakers quickly – and relatively quietly – adopted a bill making the firing squad the state’s primary execution ...

With very little debate, the Idaho House overwhelmingly voted to pass HB 37, which would make the firing squad the state’s ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...

House lawmakers will soon decide whether to ditch lethal injection as the state’s primary execution method in favor of the ...

A Frenchman on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences left prison on Tuesday ahead of his transfer to France, ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections opened a nursery at the women's prison in Vandalia to keep newborns with their mothers ...