A decision whether to mandate air conditioning inside Texas prisons is in the hands of a federal judge, as advocacy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said that the prison system is “creating monsters” after he was released from prison last week.

America talks about recidivism as if it were a mystery. It isn’t. It is a predictable outcome of how we run prisons. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has tracked what happens after release for ...

Sen. Tom Hatcher of Blount County said he wants to work with colleagues and TDOC to identify and implement changes to improve ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Former federal prison warden Percy Pitzer has published "A Warden's Path," drawing from his career in corrections to advocate for prison reform and better community reintegration of ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Some of the gangs South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley listed as tied to violence at the men’s prison in Sioux Falls have the largest gang presence in prisons around ...

A court order placing the state prison health care system under independent receivership has left officials with one important question: Who is up to the task?

Prison reform advocates and families of inmates are petitioning Gov. Katie Hobbs to provide $1.5 million in funding for an ...