Inmates can often be seen picking up trash along roads in Mississippi, but they could soon be working on the roads as well if ...

The House passed a bill Thursday that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical ...

The fictional holiday Galentine's Day was popularized by the sitcom Parks and Recreation, whose female characters met for brunch and friendship.

Remains found by hunters in Blount County nearly 20 years ago have been identified as Patrick Grayson Spann from Mississippi.

Alabama's congressional map is at stake in a federal trial beginning Monday to decide if the state will keep the new court-created district that led to the election of a second Black representative.

Justice Lassiter died by suicide in March 2023, more than two years into a seven-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark. If he'd made parole as soon as he was eligible, he would have ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order reversing former President Joe Biden's ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Along with this, Trump also signed an executive ...

At least 200 acres of land inside the boundaries of the Wind River Reservation are also earmarked to provide revenue for corrections. Grist has identified nearly 2 million acres of state trust ...

The Times Union reported two years ago that an inmate at Attica state prison told corrections investigators that synthetic opioids prescribed to treat substance abuse problems in state prisons ...

Dan previously worked as a news associate at The Associated Press in Philadelphia, and later as local editor, breaking news editor and eventually manager at Patch, overseeing the company’s ...

In South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana, about a quarter or more of the state prison population is Indigenous, even though Native people make up less than a tenth of each state’s population.