South Carolina restarted its death chamber this year after an unintended 13-year break in executions in part because ...

South Carolina will not carry out any more executions until at least January, the state Supreme Court ruled in a Thursday ...

An inmate at a prison in Columbia was recently arrested after a correctional officer was stabbed in the head, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

Hiring and retention of employees are among the biggest challenges for Georgia's prison system, Department of Corrections ...

Lawyers for four S.C. inmates asked justices to postpone executions until after Christmas and New Year’s. The top court may be doing that.

Fulton County officials fail to protect jail inmates from violence, using excessive force and holding them in filthy and unsafe conditions, report says. Power lines and poles snapped across much of ...

As temperatures drop, debris cleanup from Helene remains a concern for those who still are waiting for their homes to be fixed.

How much is the life of your loved one worth? Could you put a dollar amount on your sibling, parent, spouse or child?Of ...

Jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county violate the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to ...

The small college town of Moscow, Idaho, became widely known two years ago for a tragedy from which it may never fully ...