When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

The commissioners will be appealing to the Pennsylvania DOC and the governor to keep facilities open,” Commissioner Mark ...

For years, I stayed in the "quietly gay" crowd to avoid assault. It didn't matter how you identified—only how you were ...

A 14-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to raping and beating a 91-year-old woman in Reddick last year has been sentenced.

Amid the blitzkrieg of executive actions President Donald Trump has taken over the past two weeks, it should be no surprise ...

Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

The news reports about and video of the New York prison treatment of Robert Brooks, a Black man from Greece who died after being beaten by white corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility ...

The founder of Operation Gateway says the best time to help men being released from incarceration is while they are still ...

A new law allows courts to impose lesser sentences if it can be determined the defendant was a victim of domestic violence at ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

He’s going from gold bars to prison bars. A teary-eyed Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison Wednesday for selling out his Senate office to enrich himself — in an infamous ...