Wisconsin was the first state to let incarcerated people work in the community, letting them save money and pay for room and ...

TWO prisoners including a murderer are being hunted by police after absconding from jail on New Year’s Day. The lags escaped ...

Criminal justice experts said TDCJ’s need for immigrant labor, even in Texas, speaks to the agency's long-standing staffing ...

"Punishing incarcerated people for refusing to work indeed violates the state constitution’s ban on involuntary servitude and ...

Lawmakers intend to pursue new legislation next year targeted at New York’s prisons and the people who live and work within ...

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

Recidivism reveals a gap between punishment and rehabilitation. Psychology explains why incarceration alone rarely transforms ...

There are fears a village in Devon could become a "ghost town" if its prison does not reopen. HMP Dartmoor, at Princetown, ...

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

Prison guards have been accused of more than 120 acts of brutality that amounted to torture in the past decade in New York, a ...

From suicide spikes to solidarity, Mansa Musa explains what the holidays are really like inside U.S. prisons—and how people ...

Grand jury report cites gang violence and staff shortages at Woodburn prison where 60% of those in custody are now adults.