So from the day this council was sworn in to now, that’s about 700  people less every single day who are spending the night ...

The Lackawanna County Prison successfully slashed overtime costs in the first half of the year, with 2025 overtime down by ...

The prison population inched up 2 percent in 2022 and again in 2023, and it is possible that a similar rise took place in 2024, but even collectively, ...

But incarcerated people and BOP experts say that in just a few short months, the Trump administration has exacerbated this crisis. He has implemented major pay cuts, issued confusing and short-sighted ...

The spike, which hasn’t yet hit pre-pandemic levels, is driven by an increase in people detained while awaiting trial, ...

Minnesotans spend over $535 million locking up about 8,300 people in our prisons: an astronomical average of $65,000 per ...

More than 50% of the 529 deaths occurred in CoreCivic’s four facilities, despite CoreCivic housing less than 39% of the state's overall prison population during the same period.

Updated at 12:35 p.m. ET on June 26, 2025. For more than 40 years, the United States—a nation that putatively cherishes freedom—has had one of the largest prison systems in the world.