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MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON — Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing Olympic and college female gymnasts, was stabbed…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An atheist and secular humanist is suing multiple officials in charge of the agency that runs West Virginia's jails and prisons, accusing the state of violating his constitutional rights by…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Department of Corrections, for the second time this year, has picked a Tennessee-based company to provide health care services at its 27 facilities.YesCare Corp., based in Brentwood,…

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As wildfires rage across California each year, exhausted firefighters call for reinforcements from wherever they can get them — even as far…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Albert Woodfox, a former inmate who spent decades in isolation at a Louisiana prison and then became an advocate for prison reforms after he was released, died Thursday of complications from COVID-19,…

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney.Ramiro Gonzales is…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate convicted of a 1994 slaying can pursue arguments that he is intellectually disabled and should not be executed under state law, a federal judge has ruled.U.S. District…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate is appealing a state trial court's dismissal of his request to be declared intellectually disabled, which would make him ineligible for execution.Earlier this year,…

After being sent to prison for a year over a 1988 road-rage incident, Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu chose to skip dinner on his first night in prison, sources were quoted as saying to news agency PTI. Lodged in Barrack No.10 at the…

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The spiraling number of overdose deaths and hospitalizations among California prison inmates fell dramatically during the first two years of…