Alabama’s prison system has been in the federal crosshairs for years, and as the latest lawsuit from the Department of ...

For much of the 2025 session, lawmakers have debated the need for more prison capacity in the state. They’re looking at more ...

Prison abolitionists argue that the U.S. prison system is ineffective and that alternatives such as restorative justice and ...

WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. — The Georgia Department of Corrections is responding after a corrections officer at Johnson State Prison ...

Governor Kathy Hochul suspects a cultural problem within the New York State prison system allowed for the beating deaths of ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A state lawmaker says he has launched an investigation of Arizona’s corrections system ...

Louisville Metro Corrections is rolling out a new high-tech system designed to save lives by closely monitoring the health of ...

West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency, and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...

The crisis at Indian jails goes deeper than just space -- it is a human rights emergency where the cramped conditions ...

The prison system still hasn’t given her any answers. Her letter is one of several addressed to the committee and obtained by AL.com. All share stories of loved ones dying in Alabama’s prison ...

Mark Leno, who authored California’s medical parole law when he was a Democratic state senator, criticized prison officials ...

Intended to curb prison violence with promises of early release, the law is turning out as unbalanced as critics feared, with ...