Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman. Here's a look at who else is on death row in the state.

FILE – This undated photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows Thomas Kokoraleis ... making him the last inmate to receive the death sentence and be executed in the State ...

Daniel Mitchell, 42, pleaded guilty Dec. 23 to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an inmate only referred to in court ...

National Guard troops remain deployed at many prisons and some inmates are being moved to new facilities as state corrections officials take steps to consolidate their limited workforce.

A grand jury is set to begin hearing testimony Wednesday on the death of a state prison inmate, according to the Albany Times ...

It was further learned that the inmate had struck the corrections officer in the head with a closed fist multiple times, deputies said. The officer was subsequently transported to Oneida Hospital ...

LYING TO THE FBI ABOUT THE CASE. A FORMER ROCKINGHAM COUNTY CORRECTIONS OFFICER WILL SPEND 90 DAYS IN JAIL AFTER HE PLED GUILTY TO SEXUALLY ASSAULTING AN INMATE. UNDER HIS PLEA DEAL, THE REST OF D ...

A 47-year-old prison inmate has taken a rare step in court and is not contesting the first-degree-murder charge against him for killing a fellow prisoner at the Macomb Correctional Facility.

ALBANY, NY — New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers, weeks after the state fired more than 2,000 guards who went on ...

the corrections department said. The notice from the Justice Department, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill, does not mention transgender inmates. “While the Department is aware of related ...

A former Placer County volleyball coach, convicted of child sex charges, was killed Friday in a suspected homicide at a Northern California prison, according to state corrections officials.