Oregon Senate Bill 1007 would have made it easier for wrongfully convicted people in the state to seek compensation for their ...

Arizona is en route to creating an oversight office to monitor and report on the state Department of Corrections, ...

A Douglas County deputy has been arrested following an assault investigation, the Roseburg Police Department reports.On ...

Alabama has scheduled a September execution with nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a gas station attendant during a ...

Jeffery Collins filed a personal injury and negligence lawsuit against the Oregon State Hospital after he was stabbed by a ...

A 72-year-old Oregon State Penitentiary inmate who was convicted and received a lengthy sentence in a 2003 robbery, ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections is facing a federal lawsuit for allegedly denying religious accommodations for three ...

The state Corrections Department, the suit alleges, regularly accommodates religious celebrations for other faith groups but ...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has filed a federal lawsuit against the Oregon Dept. of Corrections on behalf of ...

In a statement, the Alaska prison officials said the detainees had been “successfully transferred back to the custody of the ...

A man serving life in prison at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla for the killing of a mentally disabled Salem ...