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 ...

Stephanie McGuffie’s son Christopher has been in Colorado Department of Corrections custody for 16 years, since he was 18 ...

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

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.

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

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

We thought the best way to get into the conversation was to bypass all of the stereotypical conversations that people imagine having with people serving long-term sentences and really dive into ...

Grieving mother spent more than a year trying to get face-to-face meeting in prison with man she holds responsible for son's ...

Texas has executed a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club.

After years on death row where he found religion and became an artist, Richard Lee Tabler stopped fighting for clemency and ...

The bill moved to the full House of Representatives for consideration, passing the House Judiciary Committee with 8 votes in ...