Drug-soaked paper is becoming a growing problem in New York prisons, with the latest incident leaving a corrections officer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Incarcerated people exercise in the maximum security yard of the Lansing Correctional Facility in April 2023 in Lansing, Kan. This ...

Gov. Phil Scott met with local officials in Burlington last month to discuss persistent crime and disorder in Vermont’s largest city. Soon after, he unveiled a plan that he said would help the Queen ...

J. B. Nicholas runs a news website called The Free Lance from his home in upstate New York, and, near the end of last year, he started obsessively tracking one story: a man confined at a state prison ...

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In President Donald Trump’s record-breaking State of the Union address, he did not mention the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). He did not mention his hallmark legislation, the First Step Act, that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus took turns questioning Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain on the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Colorado lawmakers overhauled the state’s system of sentencing and monitoring sex offenders in 1998, supporters described the lifetime supervision ...

As another round of extreme low temperatures sweeps parts of the U.S., people in dilapidated jails and prisons face an increased risk of illness and even death. The threat of losing power, poor ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Individuals involved in cancer care in prisons identified multiple barriers, including coordination and ...

Lansing — Mold is a persistent problem inside Michigan's only prison for women, and employees made bets over whether inmates there would commit suicide, according to testimony presented Tuesday to the ...