A voting board in Oklahoma decided Wednesday to recommend clemency for Tremane Wood, a death row inmate who is scheduled to receive a lethal injection next week at the state penitentiary in McAlester.

WILLIAMSPORT — “It closes a chapter in the book,” was the comment of a federal corrections officer after the inmate who stabbed him in the eye five years ago pleaded guilty. Dale Franquet Jr., his ...

An investigation of a death row inmate found text messages on a contraband cellphone that showed he ordered an inmate beaten last year and insisted it be recorded, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board ...

UTICA, N.Y. — A Mid-State corrections officer was sentenced on Monday morning for his involvement in the death of an inmate. Daniel Burger will serve one and one-third to four years in prison for the ...

February 2, 1980, New Mexico and the nation watched in horror as this prison turned from an organized correctional facility into *** slaughterhouse of sheer terror ...

ESPAÑOLA, N.M. (KRQE) – A Northern New Mexico animal shelter is expanding a dog training program at the state penitentiary, after discovering black mold inside their dog kennels this summer. “We ...