Transforming Lives Behind Bars. In the heart of California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, an innovative experiment in higher ...

WASHINGTON — Years ago, when I visited Pelican Bay State Prison on the northern coast of California, prison staff explained the rules. They gave me a stab vest and a handy piece of information ...

Among the second chances offered in U.S. prisons is the first in-person bachelor’s program inside a maximum security yard.

Gov. Tony Evers' plan to close the decrepit Green Bay prison and rebuild the Waupun prison hinges on closing the troubled ...

Gov. Tony Evers is pushing for prison reform in his biennial budget. The plan calls for closing the prison in Green Bay and ...

Current and former inmates, plus Republican lawmakers, expressed excitement Monday about the possibility of Green Bay Correctional closing. A few remain skeptical that it will come to fruition.

Gov. Tony Evers will propose nearly $500 million in his budget to overhaul the state's prisons. The plan will include tearing down the 127-year-old Green Bay Correctional Institution and a massive ...

The prison in Green Bay, built in 1898, would be closed. The plan also proposes that the state’s oldest prison in Waupun, built in 1851, be converted from a maximum security prison to a medium ...

MADISON – Gov. Tony Evers is proposing in his next two-year state budget a half of a billion dollar plan that would close a deteriorating 127-year-old state prison in Green Bay, rebuild another ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) plans to veto a bill that would prevent the state’s prison system from collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), his office told The Hill on ...