Because they make up what Justice Anthony Kennedy years ago called a “hidden world of punishment,” what goes on inside these ...

Experts discuss the threats coronavirus outbreaks in prison pose for the country Some inmates at Alabama state prison facilities asking for help amid the novel coronavirus pandemic highlighted what ...

Over the last several decades, the United States earned the title of “incarceration nation.” From 1980-2020, this country led the world in sending people to jails and prisons and incarcerated a larger ...

William Marshall speaks during a West Virginia legislative meeting in December 2023. President Trump is appointing Marshall to head the Federal Bureau of Prisons. (Will Price / West Virginia ...

Prisons across the U.S. are experiencing critical staffing shortages and a new study says that the prison complex may never recover ... so changes are coming. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

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The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is going to release some inmates early because of ongoing staffing shortages in the wake of the prison strike. A memo from Commissioner Daniel ...

BOISE – Soon after an ambush at a Boise hospital last year injured three correctional officers when a prison transport turned dangerous, the director of the state’s prison system said he made ...

ATLANTA — A federal report issued Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice says Georgia's prison system fundamentally fails to protect incarcerated people from violence and sexual harm in violation ...

WASHINGTON – The Georgia Department of Corrections houses inmates in “horrific and unsafe conditions” in violation of the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, a Justice ...

What it’s intended to do is to lock up the most dangerous sexual offenders until they are safe to rejoin society,” a state ...