Legislators representing Centre and Clearfield counties joined corrections officers and staff on Tuesday at the state Capitol ...

State legislatures are grappling with how to fund new prisons that Republican governors say are needed to ease overcrowding.

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Hugs, tears, barking and tail wagging abounded at San Quentin’s prison when two black Labradors ...

A plan to build a 3,000-inmate prison in Arkansas hit a roadblock in the state Senate on Tuesday, while the Alabama ...

With questions surrounding a possible new men’s prison, the Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office outlines what numbers it saw in ...

Scotland's criminal justice system is "not working" and wasting human lives and money, according to Henry McLeish who authored a report ...

Henry McLeish argues the only way to cut the prison the population in Scotland is to send fewer people to prison. He states: "Our ...

California plans to spend $240 million creating lavish perks to 'normalize' inmates of the San Quentin State Prison, which ...

City leaders in Kemper rejected a request from a for-profit company to build an immigration jail that would have been staffed ...

Stephen Kidd, 53, (pictured) was jailed in 2009 for his part in the brutal murder of 60-year-old Darren Presley, who was ...

A new study found that reported diagnoses of tuberculosis were consistently lower than expected throughout the pandemic, even ...

The opening of a new Washington juvenile rehabilitation center initially slated for early this year has been pushed to June, ...