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

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in ...

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.

The closure is estimated to cost $6.3 million. Evers said, once the prison in Green Bay is closed, the state plans to sell the property. The prison's closure would have an effect on jobs, but Evers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The list of disapproved books include such titles as: "Game of Thrones," "The Kite Runner," "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Lady Gaga - Born to be Free." But most books that are banned seem to be ...

Local bipartisan support grew in 2023 with public figures penning letters to the state Department of Corrections expressing their support for the prison's closure. From Green Bay Mayor Eric ...