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

At the Southern Maine Women's Reentry Center, inmates gain business skills to rebuild lives post-incarceration, offering hope ...

As part of a six-week social experiment, cell units in specific pods were unlocked to foster a community-oriented living ...

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

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

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

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

Cuts to Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center result in less state support for staff training, guidance and grants ...

Sometimes I think the Islamic government believes in the power of the Church more than we, Christians in the West, do ...

Emel McDowell was in a New York City jail when a guard yelled out his name. A single envelope slid through the metal bars into his cell. He stared at the return address in disbelief.

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