In his complaint, Michael Wade Nance said his veins were so severely compromised that they were likely to blow and cause him ...

Georgia's long-running fight over how and when it can carry out death sentences landed back before the state Supreme Court on Wednesday, with lawyers arguing over whether a pandemic-era deal should ...

Georgia is asking the state's highest court to clear the way for nine inmates to be executed, while another condemned prisoner seeks death by firing squad.

New data shows how the process is unfolding: dozens of claims filed, few payouts so far, and many exonerees must prove their ...

When someone is charged with dropping drugs or other contraband into a Georgia state prison and cannot make bail, they do not go to a state facility. House Bill 974, the House's proposed fiscal year ...

An inmate at the Charles B. Webster Detention Center died Sunday after staff found him unresponsive in an isolation cell.

The man who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University completed a drug treatment program that allowed him early release from federal prison even though he was convicted of a ...

A federal jury in Florida delivered a guilty verdict against Stevenson Charles, a 24-year-old inmate who led authorities on a ...

Culture war targeting transgender civil rights’ The Trump administration released its new policy outlining how transgender ...

A man who escaped from a Georgia jail in December, kidnapped a Lyft driver and forcibly took her to South Florida has been convicted at trial of four federal charges.

A man who was serving a life sentence when he and two other inmates allegedly escaped from a Georgia jail and made their way to South Florida was convicted in the violent kidnapping of a rideshare ...

A prison-based methamphetamine distribution ring saw 13 of its members convicted and sentenced.