Colorado lawmakers are trying to make it a right — rather than a privilege — for inmates in the state’s prisons to receive ...

Her proposals include a new unit called The Future of Prisons in New York State that would create a strategy for safer ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

North Dakota's prison system says inmates spend 50% of their sentence in its facilities, including transitional housing.

Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

Shelby County Jail in Memphis, Tennessee, saw the deaths of two prisoners on Thursday and Friday. The pair's deaths came ...

“Prison life is very regimented, paternalistic, and monotonous. Everything turns on a system constantly: you will be counted ...

James Pointer’s life sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections ended abruptly last week when he bled to death from ...

The GDC confirmed to Channel 2 Action News on Friday the altercation between the inmates occurred on Jan. 30 and said that it ...

SKIPPACK — An inmate on death row at the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix was found unresponsive in his cell and ...

Vaughn Wright, a fellow inmate of Luigi Mangione at Pennsylvania’s SCI Huntingdon prison, wrote a first-person article for ...

A judge blocked Trump’s order requiring transgender inmates to be housed by biological sex, citing safety risks.