The Alabama Department of Corrections said Friday it will not challenge a stay of execution while a death row inmate’s mental competence is evaluated. Marion County Circuit Judge Lee Carter stayed the scheduled Aug.

The Virginia Department of Corrections employs more than 11,000 people across the state in positions ranging from nurses and communications staff to corrections officers. But the department has more than 2,400 open positions, according to a document it shared with Virginia Public Radio.

For several months, the public has been waiting for a decision on the future of SCi Rockview and the Quehanna Boot Camp. Earlier in the year, the two facilities were recommended for closure by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC).

Seven Florida Department of Corrections officers are facing charges in connection with the beating of an inmate at a facility in Miami-Dade, records showed.

Hart, currently the US Marshal in New Hampshire, was named on Tuesday as Ayotte’s pick for DOC commissioner — a role that oversees not only the state’s prisons but also transitional housing units and probation/parole offices as well.

The New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) officially welcomed 139 new Correctional Police Officers into its ranks Tuesday as Class 258 graduated from the department’s Training Academy during a ceremony held at Patriots Theater at the War Memorial.

The defense of the closure of Stillwater Prison from Commissioner Paul Schnell comes as some Republican lawmakers call for a public hearing on the matter, despite voting it through in bipartisan fashion during the last legislative session.

Donna Leone Hamm, director of Middle Ground Prison Reform, said Shields' mother was told by the Corrections Department his death was labeled a murder.