The Latest Breaking News from Department of Corrections

Four tapes mysteriously donated to a library reveal uncertainty behind the scenes of the death chamber — and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong.

A death row killer who took the lives of an elderly couple while trying to stalk his girlfriend across the road said he was 'at peace' before he was given a lethal injection yesterday

Move Forward MP Rangsiman Rome has called on the Corrections Department to disclose the result of its investigation into Prasit Jeawkok's attempted escape before the New Year holiday.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two inmates at a South Carolina prison are being praised for stopping a guard from being attacked Tuesday night, according to the state Department of Corrections.

A Las Vegas woman says her son and dozens of other prisoners are on hunger strike over inhumane living conditions at Nevada's Ely State Prison

On Dec. 6, 2022, a three-judge panel of the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals upheld a September 2021 ruling by Cole County Circuit Court Judge Jon Edward Beetem in which Beetem ordered the Missouri Office of Administration to resume payroll deductions for Department of Corrections employees. The Office of…

And high-ranking prison officials were found not only to have failed to address the problems but to have perpetuated them.

The Department of Corrections (DoC) will allow inmates to watch broadcasts of the football World Cup 2022 in prisons across the country.

The humanitarian crisis worsens as politicians and advocates debate closing or fixing the embattled facility.