Prison reform can help many inmates prepare for life outside prison instead of just punishing them. The approach allows them to learn new skills and ways to cope with life's ups and downs. Reform can ...

Speaker A: Hello and welcome to Gabfest Reads for the month of September. I’m Emily Bazeln. I am here with Yale law professor Judith Bresnik to talk about her amazing transatlantic history of ...

No one wants to go to prison, but there's one particular prison in Idaho that's especially feared. Why? According to the Associated Press, over the past two years, more prisoner-on-prisoner assaults ...

Does sentencing a juvenile offender to life in prison violate the Constitution's prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishment"? The Supreme Court is set to consider that question. The court will hear ...

A Denver judge ruled the Colorado Department of Corrections violated the state’s ban on involuntary servitude.