Preliminary studies suggest that innovative programs could improve prison conditions and outcomes after release.

America talks about recidivism as if it were a mystery. It isn’t. It is a predictable outcome of how we run prisons. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has tracked what happens after release for ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Some of the gangs South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley listed as tied to violence at the men’s prison in Sioux Falls have the largest gang presence in prisons around ...

Every day, more gruesome details emerge of the inhumane conditions inside the detention facilities maintained by agents with ...

Scottish politics is in uproar after a Green election candidate argued that prisons should be abolished. Such a proposal may ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Nebraska has the country’s most or second most overcrowded prison system, depending on who you ask. Inspector General of the Nebraska Correctional System Doug ...

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America’s federal prison system is running a 20th-century operation against 21st-century threats. If Congress is serious about public safety, it must modernize the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Right now ...

The legislature’s budget stalemate has hit North Carolina’s prison system hard, making it difficult to pay bills and keep enough staff to safely operate its 55 facilities.

The state prison population has surged past 23,000 people, with nearly triple that number on probation or parole. Meanwhile, staff vacancies are increasing again across the Department of Corrections.

Ruby Welch assists a student at Arkansas Beauty School in Little Rock on Dec. 10, 2025. Welch is one of the many formerly incarcerated Arkansans who stays tied to the criminal justice system after ...