North Dakota lawmakers took an unusual step on Tuesday, holding a hearing inside the state penitentiary. Their goal was to ...

An alleged attack on a state prison officer by a 43-year-old inmate transferred from Los Angeles County is being investigated as attempted homicide, California Department of Corrections and ...

Jack Doyle, the state’s attorney for the New Haven district, said he was concerned about having to repeatedly reach out to ...

While ideas diverge, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle appear to agree something needs to be done about overcrowding at ...

Mass deportations carried out under Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, an 18th-century wartime law.

ANOTHER batch of 500 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) from the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) has been transferred to the San ...

The bill would allow judges to reduce sentences under mandatory minimums and would streamline the process of requesting a ...

Marcus Mitchell has advocated for access to a high school education for individuals on death row for nearly two decades. Now, ...

Above all, staff needs support. And there are techniques for keeping violence in check. Everybody — officers, inmates and ...

Connecticut's current five-year wait for incarcerated people to apply for sentence reductions would change to two years under ...

Justice and Correctional Services minister, Nelson Ramaotwana, says Botswana Prisons Service (BPS) needs a budget ofP860,008,240 to cover operational and rehabilitation of inmates, the funds he feels ...

While they agreed to drop the title, House Democrats passed a bill last week that would make work programs almost entirely ...