All news on the topic: Department of Corrections

Willie James Pye was found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Alicia Lynn Yarbrough, in 1993, with his execution by lethal injection carried out at 11:03 pm on Wednesday night

Death row killer Ivan Cantu, who was convicted in 2001 for the 2000 murders of his cousin and his cousin's girlfriend in Texas, was put to death on Wednesday despite pushes from Kim Kardashian to stay the execution

Florida's Department of Corrections said incarcerated persons have been "relocated to facilities better equipped to weather the impacts of the storm" as forecasts expect the hurricane to become a Category 3 by the time it makes landfall in Florida and Georgia

The inmate donned the uniform and attempted to walk out of the facility in Brooklyn, New York, undetected by knocking on a locked door where and an unsuspecting officer let him out

A bill proposed by Democrats in the Massachusetts state legislature would allow prisoners in the US to exchange bone marrow or an organ for time off their sentence, capped at one year

The teenager stabbed Kayla Green during huge brawl after a parade in Mount Vernon, New York State, US, marking the state championship won by the high school boys' basketball team

Scott Eizember, 62, will be killed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, US, for the deaths of A.J. Cantrell, 76, and his wife, Patsy Cantrell, 70