Opinion: The Trump administration is imposing unnecessary cruelty on incarcerated transgender people who have nowhere to go, ...

Supporters say the change would recognize work people complete in county jails while awaiting trial, including substance-abuse treatment, parenting programs and work assignments.

When the phone stopped ringing, Hannah Podvin assumed it was a routine lockdown at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. Her fiancé told her officers were loc ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The man who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University completed a drug treatment program that allowed him early release from federal prison, even though he was ...

In addition to supplying the women’s prison with fresh produce, the program housed within Camille Graham is aimed at teaching participants skills useful in the agricultural field.

The next prison to close is the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco of Riverside County, which is expected to shut down by October. Previously, the Newsom administration clo ...

Montana has a problem. Not crime. A prison addiction. We can’t stop building them, investing in them, funding them. A new ...

Huron Valley Correctional Facility holds about 1,800 prisoners and is the state's only women's prison. It's been under fire recently for poor conditions.

Research shows people often “age out” of crime, and health care costs are ballooning. But still, many states oppose releasing ...

California is incarcerating 70,000 fewer people than in 2010, enabling the Newsom administration to close five state prisons. It has capacity to shut one more, according to a new analysis.

Thirteen formerly incarcerated people were set to graduate Saturday from a Loyola Law School program designed to prepare them to testify in court as independent forensic gang experts. The graduates ...