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 ...

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

The state Department of Children, Youth and Families hoped to open the new center in a retrofitted adult prison unit in March ...

During a working group meeting on Thursday, JICS inspecting judge Edwin Cameron said the Bail Fund would address the “injustice of being detained simply because of poverty” and make an impact on ...

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

Opinion: Cutting half the staff of the Department of Education isn't about efficiency or culling waste. It's about destruction. The President openly expresses interest in deleting the department ...

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

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 ...

As South Dakota prepares for the next steps in addressing its prison issue, it’s clear that the ultimate answer must include much more than building a new facility.

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

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