Howard Willis was sentenced to death in 2010 for the murders eight years earlier of newlyweds Adam Chrismer, 17, and Samantha ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner declared a hunger strike on Wednesday, saying he was protesting issues with medical care, the quality of the food, and individual padlocks installed on cell doors that ...

With the Collins Correctional Facility being placed on lockdown, the union representing the state officers are issuing “thoughts and prayers to all staff involved in another example of the epidemic of ...

WATCHING in horror as her family home burned to the ground, Nikki Owen had only one thought: “What have I done?” The then 18-year-old had deliberately started a fire in the spare room while her ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...