Understaffing and overcrowding in prisons are causing unsafe conditions, low retention rates, and a higher suicide rate among ...

Norway’s overhauling of its prison system helped the country reach a recidivism rate of roughly 20%. Former inmates in California reenter the criminal justice system at nearly twice that rate. Under ...

West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...

Starvation is not justice. Neglect is not discipline. The executive, legislature, the judiciary, and other stakeholders must ...

It was 1979, and America was entering the era of mass incarceration, with tough sentencing laws ballooning the criminal justice system. As California’s prison population surged, so did prison ...

After they testified, they were returned to their cells, vulnerable to retaliation from the same officers and prison system that failed to protect them in the first place. This public spectacle of ...

COVID-era changes to the criminal justice system were not envisioned as long-term, true reform goals, which officials in Dane County have already acknowledged, contending some COVID adjustments were ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Sheriffs from across the commonwealth met at the State House on Monday to continue discussions about opportunities for consolidation and collaboration within the state’s ...

The Brooks family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court claiming state officials oversee a “dangerously broken” prison system that brutalizes inmates. Gov. Kathy Hochul visited ...