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 ...

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 ...

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

The Texas Office of Inspector General is investigating the death of the inmate, as is standard procedure for all ...

Two former West Virginia correctional officers have been sentenced to decades in prison for their roles in an assault that ...

With summer temps soaring, Texas prisons rely on cool beds, AC units, and heat protocols—after a judge called current ...

Three Harris County Jail inmates died in custody within a 48-hour period last month. While the circumstances surrounding ...