Utica, N.Y. — A third New York state corrections officer has pleaded guilty in connection with the fatal beating of an inmate ...

The state Corrections Department, the suit alleges, regularly accommodates religious celebrations for other faith groups but ...

Republican lawmakers announced that the budget will fund the planning process to shut down the struggling Green Bay prison by ...

Commissioner Anna M. Gomez called it an 'indefensible decision to ignore both the law and the will of Congress.' ...

Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republicans who control the state Legislature have reached a deal on a new two-year ...

"These types of capital projects don't happen in two years and they won't in this case either," but the prison will be torn ...

President Donald Trump is expected to visit Alligator Alcatraz, a temporary immigrant detention center erected near the ...

Robert Houston used Florida’s Sunbiz system to falsely name himself CEO and mortgage 21 company-owned properties without the ...

A decade after Indiana overhauled its criminal code to reduce incarceration, lawmakers approved more than a dozen new crimes ...

A decade after Indiana overhauled its criminal code to reduce incarceration, lawmakers approved more than a dozen new crimes ...

Frank De Palma served 43 years in the Nevada prison system, including 22+ years in solitary confinement. Since his release in 2018, he has advocated for the abolition of solitary confinement, and for ...

Most people come out of prison with high hopes of making it on the outside, but the obstacles they face are almost ...