A bill to boost higher education opportunities for prisoners cleared Virginia’s legislature with bipartisan backing and could ...

Mikal Mahdi burned the body of Orangeburg County Deputy James Edward Myers after shooting him 9 times. The death row inmate ...

Virginia Democrats reportedly quickly dispatched Delegate Kim Taylor's sex offender legislation, as another proponent of her bill joins her in crying foul.

Personnel from the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office, Virginia State Police and Virginia Department of Corrections are ...

Democratic Delegate Vivian Watts told 7News the bill McKay referred to only deals with state parks and not local rec centers ...

A bill moving through the House Homeland Security Subcommittee would create a statewide victim notification system.

A Virginia inmate is facing two felony charges related to an attack on a correctional officer at Nottoway Correctional Center ...

Third inmate in connection with deadly prison break at Pasquotank Correctional Institution on trial https://www.wavy.com/ ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say more places may turn to.

Last fall, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) confirmed that at least six inmates burned themselves — though ...

Attorneys say another inmate has died an "excessive force" case in the North Central Regional Jail, almost mirroring a case ...

The combination of poor staffing and high incarceration rates is no coincidence — incarceration in Virginia is a ...