Under elderly parole, inmates 50 or older who served 20 years or more could be eligible for a parole hearing — regardless of ...

Some Mississippi lawmakers said it’s unlikely they’ll call another committee meeting. The move will likely kill school choice ...

Big House Books hosts a Jackson, Mississippi panel at Lemuria Bookstore on promoting prison literacy, featuring community ...

Legislative proposals about prison health care follow investigative reports from Mississippi Today and other news outlets on ...

An Indonesian court has sentenced seven indigenous men to six months in prison for threatening to kill a Catholic priest over a long-running land feud with a diocesan company in the predominantly ...

There are growing calls to allow prisoners greater access to phones – with current rules allowing for one five-minute phone ...

Friedmann went inside on November 30, 1987. He was barely out of boyhood, myopic, five feet seven, and pencil-thin. Friedmann, with whom I have corresponded by mail, described the jail, with his ...

It might sound like an overstatement to say Colorado’s offender-friendly legislature is hellbent on decriminalizing crime itself. But, really, what else could you make of House Bill 26-1281, ...

Following backlash about the release of a serial child molester on elderly parole, the Placer County D.A. has filed new charges against him from a decades-old, previously untried case.

There are growing calls to allow prisoners greater access to phones – with current rules allowing one five-minute phone call a week. One prison reform activist says changes should go even further, ...

Inmates and families say costly per-minute fees and limited services under a widely adopted system have turned a communication tool into a financial burden.