Experts discuss the threats coronavirus outbreaks in prison pose for the country Some inmates at Alabama state prison facilities asking for help amid the novel coronavirus pandemic highlighted what ...

Because they make up what Justice Anthony Kennedy years ago called a “hidden world of punishment,” what goes on inside these ...

Over the last several decades, the United States earned the title of “incarceration nation.” From 1980-2020, this country led the world in sending people to jails and prisons and incarcerated a larger ...

Prisons across the U.S. are experiencing critical staffing shortages and a new study says that the prison complex may never recover ... so changes are coming. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is going to release some inmates early because of ongoing staffing shortages in the wake of the prison strike. A memo from Commissioner Daniel ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Nebraska has the country’s most or second most overcrowded prison system, depending on who you ask. Inspector General of the Nebraska Correctional System Doug ...

More than 2,000 prison workers participating in an unsanctioned strike have been fired, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision announced on Monday. DOCCS Commissioner Daniel ...

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William Marshall speaks during a West Virginia legislative meeting in December 2023. President Trump is appointing Marshall to head the Federal Bureau of Prisons. (Will Price / West Virginia ...

California's prison system faces rising violence from 'dropout' gangs. These gangs, formed by defectors from traditional gangs, operate in protective custody areas, contributing to a surge in prison ...

BOISE – Soon after an ambush at a Boise hospital last year injured three correctional officers when a prison transport turned dangerous, the director of the state’s prison system said he made ...

Among the dozens of executive orders that President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office for his second term, one targets transgender people incarcerated in the federal prison system. The ...