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An upstate prison was still locked down Thursday after guards retook control of three dorms following an inmate uprising sparked when a corrections officer seized one prisoner’s illegal cellphones.

Louisiana will be using the controversial nitrogen gas method for its execution, marking the end of a 15-year hiatus on capital punishment in the state. Arizona will resume executions after ...

While Louisiana stands out as a hotbed for reversed convictions, the state hasn't disciplined a prosecutor for withholding ...

A temporary “integration unit” at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility, the state’s largest prison for female inmates at all ... longer perform a strip search on a transgender woman ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using nitrogen gas as the execution method, the state's ...

Court documents state that Ford also ... 12 death row inmates have so far been scheduled for execution in South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Oklahoma and Ohio. On his first day in office ...

"Inmate Hanson viciously murdered ... Grissom on March 20 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Hanson is asking a federal judge in Louisiana to prevent his transfer.