It’s a way to give prisoners an important work skill while trying to prevent them from falling back into a life of crime.

Prison reform advocates are pushing for the creation of an independent watchdog called an ombudsman to monitor Wisconsin ...

Rather than fire him, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation demoted a high-ranking official who ...

A recent lockdown at the Sioux Falls men's prison complex resulted in correctional officials seizing many items that inmates ...

Overtime budgets are exploding for some state agencies in Rhode Island, as employees are forced to put in extra hours due to ...

Staff at the Lovelock Correctional Center conspired to prevent Muslim inmates from praying at the religious faith’s ...

A misleading TV ad from a pro-Donald Trump super PAC claims that, as the attorney general of California, Vice President ...

As Stearns County looks at moving its jail, the St. Cloud Times looked at the most recent Minnesota Department of Corrections ...

Lawmakers on an audit committee got a rundown Monday about a weekslong lockdown at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in ...

In the wake of prison workers around the state of Illinois demanding safer working conditions, the Illinois Department of ...

ILLINOIS (KFVS) - Corrections officers and staff across Illinois protested outside some state prisons on Thursday, October 17 ...

Plaintiffs allege a 2020 “Retaliatory Force Campaign” at Souza-Baranowski prison “consisted of officers attacking more than ...