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

As the Wisconsin Department of Corrections moves toward a contract with a consulting and management firm, advocates are ...

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

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

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

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

Idaho prison officials will attempt to execute the state’s longest-serving death row inmate next month using new protocols ...

Nearly two weeks after ending their hunger strike, Jacky Robinson Jr. and Cornel Myers expressed frustration about alleged ...

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

State lawmakers approved $900 million in the last budget to fund the eventual closure of Logan Correctional Center and ...

On Oct. 9, prisoners at Stanley Correctional Institution worked with volunteers from Sleep in Heavenly Peace to build beds ...

Sixty-six legislators recently sent a letter to Governor Maura Healey calling for safety improvements at state prisons ...