(NewsNation) — Even after several states passed reforms to reduce the nation’s jail population, little has changed since 2017, an updated study found. The Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit ...

Philadelphia's jail population has reached its lowest level in recent memory — the result of a behind-the-scenes effort that ...

Though state officials have resisted new accountability measures for CoreCivic, the legislation has received bipartisan ...

Scottish Government policy allows eligible inmates sentenced to less than four years to be released after serving 40% of ...

Henry McLeish argues the only way to cut the prison the population in Scotland is to send fewer people to prison. He states: "Our ...

Michigan has a sentencing problem. According to the Council on Criminal Justice, Michigan’s average prison sentence length is roughly three times the national average, and the state leads in the ...

The prison population stood at 87,556 as of Monday, according to new data published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). This is the highest weekly figure since the population climbed to a record ...