Tennessee prison system head to resign after failed Christa Pike execution
Christa Pike remains alive but unconscious and intubated after her failed execution on Wednesday, her lawyers said.
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Christa Pike remains alive but unconscious and intubated after her failed execution on Wednesday, her lawyers said.
Deputies in West Virginia investigated a report of a drone flying near a federal prison and found three men in a nearby parked car.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
An inmate who was serving a life term at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Institute died Thursday, the Michigan Department of Corrections said.
Following claims of toxic mold at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility, the Michigan Department of Corrections says testing did not show "evidence of systemic black or toxic mold conditions."
Michigan lawmakers and women formerly incarcerated at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti are looking for answers after three women died at the facility in the past month.
An inmate serving time at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Michigan has died, state officials said Saturday. The incident marks the third inmate death tied to the institution in a span of a month.
A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer from Michigan has been sentenced for one count of distribution of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan said on Friday.
In Michigan, more inmates are earning high school diplomas, technical certificates, and college credits than ever before.
The Michigan Department of Corrections says Joshua McGehee, 40, was found unresponsive in his cell at Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility in Ionia.
Michigan prison leaders have launched a "safe prisons initiative" to curb rising assaults and improve conditions for inmates and staff.
A University of Michigan program showcases prison art and highlights how creativity helps people survive incarceration and rebuild their lives.
A Detroit-area judge has erased a 1999 murder conviction after prosecutors acknowledged that a confession was coerced by a rogue police officer.
An Adrian, Michigan, man who pleaded no contest to three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, two of which involved a minor, has been sentenced, according to online court records posted Friday.
A Michigan veterinarian will serve 10 days in jail for refusing to return a dog to a homeless man after finding the ailing pit bull mix tied to a truck.
Michigan is expanding a program to help incarcerated people obtain driver's licenses or state identification cards, something advocates say will increase the odds they are successful in returning to society.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Detroit police in the wrongful arrest of a pregnant woman who was charged with carjacking partly because of facial recognition technology.
A judge on Friday sentenced the 31-year-old Grant, Michigan, man to three years in prison, according to federal officials.
Prison staff gave R. Kelly "an amount of medicine that could have killed him," his lawyer alleged in a federal court filing.
A Michigan woman accused of setting her husband on fire then driving a van over his burning body has been sentenced again to life in prison.
After a landmark ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court, nearly 600 people convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole as juveniles could be up for resentencing.
Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and George "Machine-Gun" Kelly.
The Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility is accused of having severe cases of black mold, and some say the public needs to be involved in this issue.
A man has died after falling from an upper gallery at a Michigan prison.
A gang member was convicted of violent crime in aid of racketeering, facing up to 20 years in prison.
