The Supreme Court is considering whether sentencing a juvenile to life in prison with no chance of parole is cruel and unusual punishment, particularly if the crime is less serious than homicide.

Susan Denise Atkins, a former member of the Manson family who killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate during a two-day killing spree in 1969, has died. She was 61.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday gave a death-row inmate a one-week reprieve after authorities tried for hours to find a vein to administer his lethal injection.

Former Manson Family member Susan Atkins, who stabbed actress Sharon Tate to death more than 40 years ago and now is terminally ill, was denied parole on Wednesday, California prison officials said. Atkins, who has brain cancer, is almost sure to die in prison.

A man convicted of manslaughter attempted to break back into the jail by climbing over three layers of razor wire fencing. He said the victim’s family threatened his life, and he demanded to be rebooked.

Frank Hatley spent the past year in jail for being a deadbeat dad. But there’s one problem—Hatley doesn’t have any children. And the “deadbeat” label doesn’t fit the 50-year-old either.

New York attorney Marc Dreier, who pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding hedge funds of about $700 million, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison.

Corrections director Jon Ozmint announced Monday that 26 other states, plus the Philadelphia Prison System and the District of Columbia Department of Corrections, have signed South Carolina’s petition to the FCC.

A three-letter typo has slashed years off a prison sentence for a repeat drug offender in Ohio.

A South Carolina woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for her role in a crime spree that ended in a two-day standoff with police at a western Maryland motel in August.

A South Carolina maximum security prison has been on lockdown for nearly a week as authorities investigate a threat.

Anyone convicted in South Carolina of breaking into someone’s home with a weapon and seriously injuring or killing those inside would be sent to prison for at least 25 years under a bill up for debate.

South Carolina officials have set a May 8 execution date for a man convicted of killing an Orangeburg police officer 16 years ago. Prison officials say 34-year-old Thomas Ivey can choose electrocution or lethal injection.

400 volunteers and entertainers are going to prisons in South Carolina, to teach inmates about Christianity.

The S.C. Department of Corrections today named Sylvia Randolph its 2008 Correctional Officer of the Year.