Professionals who work with children will face criminal sanctions if they fail to report claims of sexual abuse, the home secretary has announced.

Gov. Reeves said Louisiana's infamous Angola prison under Burl Cain went from "beatings to Bible studies." What has he done for Mississippi's prisons?

New Orleans, La. (WLBT) - Months after it was overturned, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court has reinstated the conviction of a man ...

Terry Pitchford was put back on Mississippi's death row after Attorney General Lynn Fitch appealed a federal judge's ruling ...

Following President Joe Biden’s commutations of 37 men sentenced to death, some renewed focus is now on Mississippi’s death ...

Tennessee prison officials say they won't publicly release the the state's latest manual for executing death row inmates. In ...

One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009. A ...

A London teenager who was jailed for a holiday fling with a 17-year-old girl in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) begins a one ...

France has sent Indonesia an official request for the transfer of a French death row inmate who has spent nearly 20 years in ...

At the urging of dozens of liberal, soft-on-crime activist groups, President Biden, who had a moratorium during his term in office on carrying out the federal death penalty as did ...

The family of bank teller Donna Major were quick to blast the commutations, which were ordered on Dec. 23 by President Joe ...

A Christmas Day attack claimed the life of corrections officer Andrew Lansing at the Ross County Correctional Institution in ...