What it’s intended to do is to lock up the most dangerous sexual offenders until they are safe to rejoin society,” a state ...

There are empty prison buildings all over the country. They shut down for a variety of reasons: staffing issues, allegations of abuse, even simply that there are fewer people in prison today than a ...

Recidivism reveals a gap between punishment and rehabilitation. Psychology explains why incarceration alone rarely transforms ...

The Colorado Department of Corrections can house about 15,077 men across state and privately run prisons. The male population ...

This article originally appeared on Stateline. Summer heat is bearing down on U.S. prisons, where temperatures in uncooled cells can climb well into the triple digits. Facing growing pressure from ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2025 announced the closure of another prison, a shutdown that's possible because the state is incarcerating far fewer people than it did just a decade ago.

"Punishing incarcerated people for refusing to work indeed violates the state constitution’s ban on involuntary servitude and ...

Oklahoma's Department of Corrections is addressing the issue of drones delivering contraband into state prisons, with ...

South Carolina Attorney General Wilson announced Tuesday that he will continue fighting to ban contraband cellphones in prisons.

States of all political stripes, including Oklahoma, North Dakota and Massachusetts, have sent officials to tour prisons in Germany in search of ways to improve conditions for American inmates. At ...