If you were allowed for some reason to run for a third term, is there a thought that the Democrats could try to run Barack ...

President Donald Trump said “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he’s considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country ...

However, North Carolina did not have a state penitentiary and ... of its gallows and the building of the nation’s first electric chair. It held its first victim, William Kemmler, in 1890 ...

A "floating crew" of correction officers is being sent to the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, Tennessee, to bolster staffing. (Photo: Tennessee Department of Correction) A "floating ...

The Nevada Department of Corrections is racking up $60 million in overtime a year because of the need to shift correction ...

State officials plan to release hundreds of incarcerated people in NY, citing staffing shortages tied to the firing of 2,000 prison workers who refused to return to work following the end of a strike.

Paul “Greg” House, who spent more than two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was finally freed, has died.

ALBANY, N.Y. -- 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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections ...

Rep. Conor Casey, D-Montpelier, did not mince words describing Vermont’s use of a for-profit, out-of-state prison to hold more than 100 people: “I know it’s cheaper, and it’s cheaper for a ...

Rep. Nikema Williams (D-Ga.), the chair of the state Democratic Party in Georgia, announced to state committee members Monday she would step down from her role following a party rules change to ...