James Johnson’s public defender, Amy Smith, argued during the sentencing that her client’s childhood trauma and untreated ...

CoreCivic argues that its empty, nonoperational facility — which hasn’t held a single detainee going on four years — somehow ...

After juvenile life sentences were banned, a bill to make youth sentencing reforms retroactive stalled last session ...

An Iowa State Penitentiary inmate has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the December death of a fellow inmate from Ottumwa who was serving a ...

James Johnson was sentenced to life in prison Friday for murdering his cellmate, 45-year-old Milo Warnock, at the Idaho Correctional Center in 2023.

Fife and Drum restaurant, run by inmates at the Northeast Correctional Center, is the only prison-based restaurant in the ...