As Ukraine looks ahead to rebuilding the country post-conflict, a secure, modern and rights-respecting justice system is an essential element of its foundations. UNODC stands ready to work with ...

Illinois’ prison population continues to shrink, with facilities now having a 26% vacancy rate, leading some of those inside and their advocates to question the state’s plan to build two new prisons.

Gov. Tony Evers, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos need to find agreement for Wisconsin's troubled corrections system.

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

Latin American criminal groups are increasingly using drones to confront security forces, transport illicit goods, and ...

South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad March 7 for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents, David ...

Three volunteer corrections staff members will point rifles at Sigmon's chest and fire live rounds as he sits strapped to a chair, a hood over his head.

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...

Prison staff will perform a final inspection of the state's ... The protocol closely mirrors that of Alabama, the only state ...

“The defendant’s repeated choice to threaten violence, to include threats of murder and rape, against persons in the public ...

Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way ...