South Dakota’s $825 million prison project in rural Lincoln County faces legislative and legal hurdles as the proposed site and price tag come under fire.

A Lubbock judge slightly reduced the bond of a former State Supported Living Center employee accused of breaking the jaw of a resident who later died.

Two menwere sentenced on Tuesday to six to 15 years for attempted murder and an additional two to six years for battery on a ...

An Omaha man serving a sentence for felony shoplifting died Monday after being found unresponsive in his cell at the Douglas County Corrections Center.

"A prison, like a jail, is a necessary government function, and it must be located somewhere," a state circuit judge ruled.

"There's so many other steps that have to come after this for some action to really ... make us believe that it's true," a former prisoner said.

The Douglas County Department of Corrections is investigating the death of an incarcerated person. Authorities said ...