A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% ...

Members of a coalition group opposing the construction of a new prison in Franklin County took their concerns to the state ...

After a month in office, Gov. Kelly Armstrong on Wednesday laid out a plan he says will address property taxes, overcrowding ...

Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in ...

Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in ...

Field officers were urged to engage state Chief Judges and Attorneys-General to accelerate prosecutorial processes Over ...

A recent report from the Prison Policy Initiative indicates that understaffed prisons are a symptom of American mass ...

The new boss overseeing child welfare in Washington will have her hands full navigating a crisis in youth prisons.

Overcrowded prisons in England and Wales are at breaking point, with self-harm at record levels. Now, researchers are ...

Paraguay’s penitentiary system remains in a state of emergency for a second year, yet without tackling the root causes, the ...

In a letter obtained by the AP, 43 Uyghur men detained in Bangkok made a public appeal to halt what they called an imminent threat of deportation.

The prison population has been creeping back upward. New laws in some states instituting harsher punishments threaten to further fill prisons, many of which are already understaffed and overcrowded.