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A report by California's inspector general says misguided attempts to protect inmates from the coronavirus at one prison “caused a public health disaster” at another

NEW YORK — The warden of the troubled Metropolitan Correctional Center, who took over after the shocking suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, has retired after just a year on the job,

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Authorities are searching for three inmates who escaped from a southeast Missouri jail during the weekend. The U.S. Marshals Service says the three escaped from the Iron County jail late

FILE - This undated file image provided by Attorneys for Lisa Montgomery shows Lisa Montgomery. An appeals court granted a stay of execution Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, for Montgomery, convicted

BALTIMORE — Dustin John Higgs, who was convicted of murdering three women in Prince George’s County in 1996, was executed early Saturday morning, the 13th federal inmate put to death

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts will start vaccinating individuals living and working in congregate care facilities and prisons on Monday, Gov. Charlie Baker said at a Statehouse press conference Wednesday.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb, the first time in nearly

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has added 1,092 new coronavirus cases in a resurgence that is erasing hard-won epidemiological gains and eroding public confidence in the government’s ability to

BALTIMORE — As with many death row inmates, the final days before Dustin John Higgs’ scheduled execution Friday are marked by a flurry of last-minute legal appeals to spare his