Two former inmates say the deadly riot at Washington State Prison was preventable, blaming chronic understaffing, unsafe ...

ALBANY — State Sen. Julia Salazar released a report Monday that asserts conditions in New York’s prisons remain dire, with inmates regularly neglected and abused, and correction officers not held ...

Experts discuss the threats coronavirus outbreaks in prison pose for the country Some inmates at Alabama state prison facilities asking for help amid the novel coronavirus pandemic highlighted what ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS — The wife of a prison guard who was killed on Christmas Day 2024 at Ross Correctional Institution in Chillicothe has filed a lawsuit in the Ohio Court of Claims seeking punitive damages ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Nebraska has the country’s most or second most overcrowded prison system, depending on who you ask. Inspector General of the Nebraska Correctional System Doug ...

BOISE – Executions are on hold in Idaho. The state prison system suspended its ability to carry out the death penalty through at least the end of the year as officials begin the transition to firing ...

Ruby Welch assists a student at Arkansas Beauty School in Little Rock on Dec. 10, 2025. Welch is one of the many formerly incarcerated Arkansans who stays tied to the criminal justice system after ...

An inmate serving time for manslaughter has won an appeal over his missing TV, which disappeared during a transfer between New Jersey prisons. Sadot Council, 40, bought a television in May 2023 from ...

MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. Based on its offender population, it is the largest correctional facility in New England. Credit: Yehyun Kim / ctmirror.org Beginning in the ...