The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal ...

Rodolfo 'Rudy' Alvarez Medrano, 45, a Texas death row inmate, is among a select group of about a dozen prisoners chosen for a ...

Judge Austin Reeve Jackson set Robert Roberson's execution for Oct. 16, almost exactly a year after the Texas Supreme Court ...

Prior to Benjamin Song’s capture, a manhunt for him prompted a “Blue Alert” that pinged numerous cell phones on July 9.

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

Federal prosecutors have charged a former U.S. Marine Corps reservist with attempted murder after an attack at a Texas immigration detention center ...

An intense, weeklong manhunt for Benjamin Hanil Song — a suspected shooter at the Prairieland Detention Center on July 4 — has ended with his arrest by FBI agents in Dallas, announced Acting United ...

Inmate deaths at Harris County Jail in Texas have surpassed last year's total, prompting investigations and calls for justice ...

Iran says five inmates where killed and several others escaped from Tehran’s Evin prison after an Israeli airstrike last month. The semiofficial ILNA news agency and other Iranian media on ...

People held at the brand new Florida immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” say worms ...

Alexis Jovany Cardenas, 32, died Tuesday after an alleged altercation with detention officers while on his way out of the ...