A man expected to be the next inmate scheduled for execution in South Carolina is making a final appeal to the state Supreme ...

Matthew Eric Wrinkles, 49, of Evansville, was the last Indiana state prisoner to be executed. That took place Dec. 11, 2009.

Corcoran's attorneys on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case and to issue an emergency ruling to stop the ...

Former American Senior Communities CEO James Burkhart, who seven years ago pleaded guilty to fraud, kickback and money ...

Nursing home operator American Senior Communities’ former CEO James Burkhart was among nearly 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted as part of the ...

A federal court dismissed an appeal challenging a S.C. Department of Corrections policy that limits access to inmates for public interviews. The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected an effort ...

A man convicted of murder who is expected to be the next inmate scheduled for execution in South Carolina is making a final ...

Attorneys for death row inmate filed new petition asking the state's Supreme Court to reconsider his case in light of what ...

The U.S. government will pay nearly $116 million to resolve lawsuits brought by more than 100 women who say they were abused ...

The prison system’s payout will go to 103 former inmates of the prison, according to an announcement Tuesday by their ...

In lawsuits and interviews, people held at Lee penitentiary described correctional officers breaking teeth, fracturing ribs ...