Plan to release inmates from desperately overcrowded prisons has provoked an all-too-familiar round of horse-trading that illustrates the country's chronic sectarianism ...

Crime is expensive. Counties across West Virginia already know this as they contend with a growing number of inmates and the expanding costs to house them in the state’s regional jails. An analysis ...

The state agency responsible for overseeing Medicaid payments and services lacked “effective processes” to identify millions ...

More inmates behind bars on parole-only holds means a bigger cost for Minnehaha County taxpayers. A parole-only hold means ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that’s unprecedented in the agency’s ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Jason Pope couldn’t believe what he saw on his ViaPath prison tablet inside South Carolina’s Kirkland Reception ...

Dayton, came into a recent tour of the Dayton Correctional Institution with concerns, and she walked out of it with ideas on what is needed to ...

Some countries spend millions trying to address the crisis, yet prisons continue to suffer from poor hygiene, inadequate ...

An NBC News analysis of every final statement shows that some convey a readiness to die. Others are defiant. And many seek ...

ICE used pepper spray on 47 detainees in an overcrowded Mesa facility room, a 911 call obtained by the Arizona Mirror reveals ...

“New York jails boss once served time in a cell block he now oversees” (Reading Eagle, April 26) was refreshing. A man offended, paid a price and now says he was redeemed and given a new perspective.

Finland's prison population continued to grow last year, according to the Prison and Probation Service's 2025 yearbook. It noted that there were an average 3,545 incarcerated people in 2025, which was ...