A former Harris County detention officer who switched departments just weeks after being caught on camera violently slamming a woman to the ground was able to secure a job at the Houston Police ...

Five inmates at the Central Maryland Correctional Facility in Sykesville have been convicted in two separate stabbings at the ...

Tabler — the second person executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the end of April — was ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...