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 ...

To stay up to date on all the latest news as ... (WALB) - The Georgia Department of Corrections provided an update on a murder-suicide at Smith State Prison over the weekend.

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

The South Dakota Department of Corrections (DOC) is providing a summary in response to the recently completed lockdown of the ...

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

South Carolina prison officials have told death row inmate Richard Moore that a firing squad, the electric chair and lethal ...

Oregon Department of Corrections leaders are pushing ... Georgia and New Hampshire — are all in the process of building new ...

CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — A 46-page Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) state audit looking at internal procedures is raising some eyebrows. Auditors spent 3,893 hours on the project ...

Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) officials took its last "death chamber" offline Wednesday morning. The small room, located inside the Washington State ... shared all of the same legal ...

Alaska’s corrections department is the largest health care facility and behavioral health care provider in the state. The practitioners often treat people who don’t or can’t access health ...