A new location of Southeast Technical College will open on at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. The South ...

Learn more about Prohibition-era gangster Al Capone's stay at Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, now a landmark that hosts tours and haunted houses.

The South Dakota Department of Corrections says it will rebuild three sweat lodges dismantled during a weekslong lockdown at ...

Today, Texas executes inmates using a lethal injection of Pentobarbital, a sedative sometimes used to control seizures. All ...

Robert Roberson was convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter in a case that relied on a disputed diagnosis of shaken ...

A man in Texas is due on Thursday to become the first executed in the United States for murder attributed to shaken baby ...

An autistic man whose murder conviction was based on a questionable diagnosis of "shaken baby syndrome" is to be executed in ...

While authorities confirm members of the Venezuelan prison gang have been active in Houston, it's "too soon to tell" how big ...

A Texas appellate court reversed a judge's order to delay Thursday night's planned execution of a man who would become the ...

Greg Abbott or the U.S. Supreme Court - his last two avenues for a stay. He is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. A Texas House committee is also trying ...