CDCR officials are investigating the death of Wilbert Lucero at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, as a homicide. Lucero was found unresponsive in his cell during a security check on Feb. 3.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Idaho death row prisoner died in custody Monday evening of natural causes while at a local hospital, the state prison system ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three inmates at California State Prison in the Antelope Valley have been placed in restrictive housing after a fourth inmate died ...

Idaho death row prisoner Erick Hall, convicted of two rapes and murders, died in custody. Hall’s convictions stemmed from the killings of Lynn Henneman and Cheryl Ann Hanlon. Idaho is switching from ...

Feb. 12 (UPI) --A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plans to relocate former death row inmates to the country's most restrictive supermax prison.

Democrats’ hopes of redistricting Virginia’s House seats to be more favorable to the party in the upcoming midterms hit a legal roadblock. Indiana rebuts Trump-led pressure, scrambling ...

RAIFORD, Fla. – The moral divide over the death penalty played out in Florida this week in a remarkably personal and unusual display, as the state executed its first prisoner of 2026. Florida executed ...

SUFFIELD, Conn. (WFSB) - An investigation is underway after a inmate unexpectedly died on Sunday. An incarcerated individual has died at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, ...

TONIGHT. MARCY. THAT THE JURY MADE 12 RECOMMENDATIONS. THEY RANGE FROM CHANGING THE CULTURE IN THE PRISON TO MAKING SURE THE CHARGE NURSE ON EACH SHIFT IS AT LEAST A REGISTERED NURSE. ONE ...