The problem of prison overcrowding is a powder keg in many states; indeed, a California judge ruled recently that the state’s correctional system had to reduce its prison population by half. Prisoner ...

Each year, several thousand people are released from incarceration and return to Anchorage after completing their sentence. Many more encounter barriers and collateral consequences stemming from ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- State corrections officials are searching for a prisoner who walked away from a community reentry program in Los Angeles on Sunday six months before he was due for parole.

About 700,000 federal and state prisoners return home each year in America, and most soon commit more crimes. A 2002 Department of Justice study found that over 67 percent of released prisoners wind ...

Idaho has a higher incarceration rate than any democratic nation, and it incarcerates more women than any other state. But eventually, most Idaho prisoners will leave prison and navigate the reentry ...

President Obama has made progress helping ex-cons return to society, but he hasn't created the sweeping program he promised. In 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder held the first meeting of the ...