After decades on death row, Richard Moore faces a choice between electrocution or a firing squad, but the former prison chief says he doesn't deserve to die.

Smith County and Randall County officials have partnered with local high schools to house training programs that allows students to become correctional officers

Justin Avery attempted to sneak into the female side of the facility by crawling on the floor past a security guard in order to assault another woman.

The inmates are facing new charges among them aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping

The request comes amid reports of dehydration, heat rash and attempts to cool down with toilet water

A complaint against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice says that lack of air conditioning in the premises amounts to cruel punishment

Overall, 23% of the prison population in 2022 was Latino. They comprise roughly 19% of the population in the U.S.

The video goes through the compound used to hold some 40,000 prisoners

The 22-year-old shortstop was granted conditional release after paying 2 million Dominican pesos ($34,000) as a type of deposit. Despite his release Monday, he has to appear before authorities every month as part of the investigation.

Macias was sentenced to 34 years of prison in 2011 for several crimes including drug trafficking and murder.

Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in 2011 and is now "suicidal" according to his lawyer, appears in court Monday in his lawsuit against Norway over his prison conditions.

César Calderón, Molina's lawyer, said the former president - who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy - was released Wednesday night after he posted a bond of $1.3 million. However, he won't be able to leave Guatemala.

South Africa's ex-Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison on parole Friday, almost 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a crime that gripped the world.

President Xiomara Castro's new plan involves the construction of an isolated prison on the Islas del Cisne archipelago, situated 250km off the coast.

Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, aged 71, has been found guilty of money laundering by a court in Panama.

Leslie Van Houten will likely be on parole for three years and has expressed her intention to seek employment shortly.

The incident took place on Sunday at the United States Penitentiary Coleman, a facility currently experiencing staffing shortages.

Honduran police, like their counterparts in El Salvador, shared videos of tattooed inmates being forcefully escorted during a recent prison sweep.

A Brazilian politician who killed her husband with the help of her children has been sentenced to 50 years.

A state of emergency was declared in two Ecuador provinces after five police officers got killed.

A man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his three children.

Jesús Hernández Alcocer, a 79-year-old lawyer, who allegedly murdered his 21-year-old singer wife, died in a prison in Mexico City.

A man accused of allegedly raping a 17-year-old deaf and mute girl, killed himself fearing prison time.

At least 15 people died and 20 were injured in a clash between inmates inside the Latacunga prison in central Ecuador.

Convict Porfirio Duarte-Herrera serving life sentence escapes from prison Tuesday.

A man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for taking a woman hostage at an internet cafe in Saitama, Japan last year.

A child molester will serve a 10-year prison sentence for allegedly hiring an assassin to kill his male victim per reports.

A 37-year-old former prison nurse at Oregon's only women's prison faces 25 counts of sexual assault charges.

A Washington man who allegedly stabbed his wife and two daughters to death in 1999 was found murdered in a prison shower in Washington State Penitentiary on Sunday, March. 13. 

A man has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for allegedly stabbing his estranged wife to death in 2020 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.