Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - State prisons in the United States became more violent and nearly 50% deadlier over the past five years as authorities struggled to keep enough guards on the job, ...

The Bureau of Prisons has a problem attracting new workers. However, there are no easy answers and a tough environment is as much to blame as low salaries.

PORTLAND, Ore. — There’s renewed debate in Salem over whether the state should cooperate with immigration authorities in cases where federal forces are trying t ...

States of all political stripes, including Oklahoma, North Dakota and Massachusetts, have sent officials to tour prisons in Germany in search of ways to improve conditions for American inmates. At ...