Georgia lawmakers have approved a $250 million budget allocation aimed at improving conditions in the state’s prisons.

A verdict has been reached in the trial for the 2019 murder of a Columbus State University while working at a Circle K in the ...

The state of South Carolina has set an execution date for Mikal Mahdi, a man who killed an off-duty Orangeburg police captain ...

ALBANY — More correction officers returned to their jobs Friday amid a wildcat strike in its third week, following a Thursday night agreement between state prison officials and the strikers ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Friday declined a Georgia state senator’s request for an arrest warrant against a state House staffer following a confrontation between the two earlier this year.

A Georgia man will spend nine years in prison for stealing 62 guns from a Macon pawn shop. Rontavious Jamal Jackson, 34, of Cordele, Georgia was sentenced to 108 months in prison followed by three ...

ATLANTA — The murders of two 13-year-old boys in Atlanta have reignited calls to crack down on contraband cellphones in Georgia prisons ... inside Hancock State Prison using an illegal cellphone.

TIFTON, Ga. (WALB) - The Tifton Fire Department responded to multiple car fires on private property near the Rhythm and ... windy conditions—along with a state-issued Red Flag Warning for ...

Messiah Nantwi, 22, died at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy on Saturday, March 1, a spokesperson for the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) told Daily Voice.