The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is addressing several major challenges amid ongoing ...

When journalist Peter Greste was languishing in a Cairo prison cell, he could little imagine that one day, Richard Roxburgh ...

A MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) activist is in prison for allegedly challenging the interrogation of Plumtree students after they clashed with their teacher over the controversial heritage studies ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) plans to veto a bill that would prevent the state’s prison system from collaborating with ...

The outcome of the appeal, brought by GEO Group, could set important legal precedent on wages for detainees who work in ...

The Kane County Sheriff’s Office presented data showing an uptick in both jail population and arrest warrants. Sheriff Ron ...

The Mississippi House has passed a bill that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical care provided to prison inmates.

A circle of criminal justice advocates have long pushed to create an independent body to monitor the Arizona Department of ...

Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. For this week’s column, ...