Every year, thousands of people die in prisons, jails and law enforcement custody.

Illinois has quietly turned over medical care for the entire state prison system to Centurion Health under what started as a ...

Leslie Harris has missed most milestones in his daughter's life while serving a decades-long sentence in Louisiana for armed robbery and is unlikely to get out before her prom, her graduation and ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student in 1993 was executed Wednesday. Charles Crawford, 59, was pronounced dead ...

FILE - This Aug. 3, 2017, photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Mississippi death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP, file) ...