Efforts to bring back the prison rodeo to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary will continue during the Legislature’s upcoming session. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections pursued an $8.3 million ...

State Senator Janeen Sollman, who co-chairs the Oregon Legislature's Ways and Means subcommittee on public safety, said she visited the state prison and she supports the idea of building a one.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls has been placed on lockdown status, a release from the ...

Dozens of people — friends and family of prison inmates — peacefully protested for prison reform near the South Dakota State Penitentiary.

The department says it has stepped up security at all of its prisons since 2021, when two workers were killed inside Anamosa State Penitentiary. The prison was reportedly over capacity when the ...

Since a wave of midcentury reforms to prisons, the number of people subjected to their brutal conditions has risen alongside global temperatures.When Angola was reformed in 1955, its population ...

A guard on horseback leads a Louisiana State Penitentiary work crew to the fields at Angola on Nov. 21, 2014. A new set of suggestions to change Louisiana's prison and sentencing laws could save ...

From 1975: The two inmate uprisings at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla were “coordinated and preplanned,” the superintendent said.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — Throughout the week, we’ve been reporting on the meetings held by Governor Larry Rhoden’s Project Prison Reset Task Force. And now, we’re hearing fr… ...

South Dakota State Penitentiary plagued by rash of ... Ollila asserted the prison staff have been losing ... "It's emboldening some really harmful actors in the inmate population to press ...

The death of 45-year-old Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate Robert Clark Jr. is being investigated. ... Prison medical staff immediately began treatment on Clark, and he died a short time later.

SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO) — A nationwide search is on for a new warden for the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. In an email to Department of Corrections staff, the director of pr… ...