The U.S. operates one of the largest and most punitive criminal justice systems in the world. On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state and local ...

Among the two dozen KY probation and parole officers who lost their jobs, some were accused of ignoring their duty to ...

An inmate lays on a bed in a jail cell. The panel established by Gov. Mike Kehoe to write rules for how long people who break the law must stay in prison may be violating the law itself by meeting in ...

The hearings are being held on consecutive days, with separate deliberations for each brother. By Tim Arango Reporting from Los Angeles Almost 36 years to the day after he and his brother murdered ...

The working group established by Gov. Mike Kehoe to look at the regulations governing parole has met twice since a public hearing in June. Neither the public nor the media was notified of either ...

Mike returned home to Philadelphia after a 15-year prison sentence and suffered an emotional breakdown. "I just couldn't stop crying … I don't know. It was the anxiety. It was just a lot," he said. "I ...

Officer Paul Duncan used his position at the Department of Corrections to make plays for female offenders he was attracted to, records show.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) That means one out of every 60 Americans is entangled in the system — one of the ...