The number of men taking their own lives, the use of drugs and overcrowding remain significant problems at HMP Leeds, a ...

The widespread availability of drugs in British prisons has long been among the more baffling conundrums of national life. How come institutions specifically built and managed to be secure have a drug ...

The Assembly may have passed its own watered-down version of prison reform Monday, but it leaves the state way short of actually fixing any of the problems swirling around the system. Nobody’s really ...

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal ...

Hawaii has struggled for many years to confront the reality of a deteriorating corrections system that barely manages the prison population it has. It’s a vexing situation, mandates coming from all ...

Sen. Tom Hatcher of Blount County said he wants to work with colleagues and TDOC to identify and implement changes to improve ...

A 5,000-bed private-prison complex approved in July by the Pima County Board of Supervisors doesn’t yet have the final approval it needs from the Arizona Department of Corrections to house Arizona ...

Wouldn't it be nice if we never had to send anyone to prison? That sure would be a fast way to save a lot of money and to maintain healthy families. One way to move in that direction would be to ...

Responding to staffing shortages that imperiled guards and staff, Wisconsin lawmakers in 2023 significantly increased pay for corrections officers — hoping to retain and attract more workers to the ...