Inspector General Report Finds Serious Failures Led to an Inmate Wasting Away From Treatable Cancer

A federal inmate died of treatable colon cancer after waiting six months for an urgent colonoscopy. Medical neglect like this ...

Group asks for clemency for death row inmate; calls for reform of death penalty

Some Oklahoma lawmakers and a group against the state’s death penalty met Tuesday to ask for clemency for Kendrick Simpson. He’s the next death row inmate scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma.

What it’s like inside the infamous jail where Venezuela’s former president Maduro is being held

A federal jail with a documented history of power outages, staffing shortages and detainee complaints got two more ...

New bill would change credit systems in Oklahoma prisons

The bill would amend a 30-year-old law that lets people who have been convicted of a crime but are still waiting in jail go ...