When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations.

ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas — More than 900 acres overlooking the Ouachita River could eventually become the site of a 5,000-bed ...

While the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the median salary for a corrections officer is just shy of $59,000 annually, prison guards in Massachusetts are among the highest paid in the nation ...

In 2022, seven states, all in the South, paid no wages at all for regular (non-industrial) jobs: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas. Simply put, the legal basis ...

In the May 2022 lethal injection of Clarence Dixon, the prison execution team ... Grissom’s mother had a prolonged labor at his birth in 1968 in Arkansas, causing him oxygen deprivation during ...

(KNWA/KFTA) — Amber Waterman’s appeal to the Arkansas Supreme Court is set for ... in federal court last year and sentenced to life in prison for the killings, but Benton County prosecutors ...

A bill to allocate $750 million to fund construction of a 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County failed on the Senate floor on ...

Appropriation bills require a three-fourths vote of both chambers of the Legislature for passage, meaning 27 votes were ...