Recruitment and retention pay that has been used to address severe staff shortages at federal prisons across the country is ...

Daryl Smith, 50, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for the distribution of cocaine base.

Alabama's governor on Friday commuted a death row inmate's sentence to life in prison, saying there are questions about the ...

West Virginia temporarily deployed its contingent ... yet to stand down a contingent of 300 National Guardsmen in its state prisons. Last December, the nonpartisan Prison Policy Initiative ...

Twenty-four hours after a GOP Sen. withdrew his bill to get rid of the rape exception—because he was getting threats—a GOP ...

Nearly 40 people were arrested as part of an operation carried out by the U.S. Marshals Southern District of West Virginia CUFFED Task Force and the West Virginia ...

Recruitment and retention pay that has been used to address severe staff shortages at federal prisons across the country is ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is seeking a private vendor to provide meals for nearly 20,000 prisoners, citing rising food costs and inefficiencies. But critics warn privatization may worsen ...

Kalob Byers, 28, of West Virginia was arrested this month on drug charges over cannabis gummies found in his luggage, Russian ...

A Colliers man Thursday pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual abuse by custodian and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison. Shaine Black, 26, of Colliers entered the plea before 1st Judicial ...

In West Virginia, Morrisey said the number of illegal immigrants with prior criminal histories being held in state correctional facilities on behalf of ICE rose to 72, though 10 of those ...