South Dakota’s $825 million prison project in rural Lincoln County faces legislative and legal hurdles as the proposed site and price tag come under fire.

Today he is director of policy and programs for Emancipate NC, a nonprofit that works to end mass incarceration and ...

The question of how to care for incarcerated patients in hospitals is an urgent one. We can’t afford to get it wrong.

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after ...

Leonard Peltier left the prison Tuesday morning in an SUV, according to a prison official. He didn't stop to speak with reporters or his supporters outside the gates.

A bill under consideration at the Colorado Legislature would give incarcerated people the right to see their families and ...

Munro stabbed her 51 times at their home in Culcheth, near Warrington. He was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 26 ...

Correction officials of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are backing the Philippine initiative to craft an agreement allowing the transfer of sentenced persons (TSPs) to ...

Here's what's been happening at the Waupun Correctional Institution the last two years following news that Gov. Evers proposed prison reform.

Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, has urged people to continue fighting for a “free, peaceful” Russia a year after he died in prison.

The Supreme Court ruled that trying civilians in military courts is unconstitutional, but despite this, Dr Kizza Besigye and ...

Israel and Hamas have completed their sixth exchange of hostages and prisoners after their ceasefire survived its latest crisis ...