The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...

Louisiana is challenging a federal decision to slash the cost of many phone calls from prison, which advocates ... budget problems for sheriffs and state prisons. Last July, the Federal ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Rockview state prison is ... manage the aging population trends observed during the last quarter century,” the memo read. The proposal also comes against the backdrop of corrections officer ...

In the meantime, hundreds of Montana inmates are being transferred to private prisons in Arizona and Mississippi as a stop gap for a prison population growing faster than the state can manage.

(WHTM) – One thing both Democrats and Republicans agree on is that it would save money if the state closes two state prisons and ... “Our individual prison population is going to increase ...

Violence in state prisons was spotlighted in October during ... and five have been counted so far in FY ’25. “Prison is not Disneyland,” Harpe said. “We have violence.” ...

The report details how short staffing has become a fact of life in some of the prisons. At Sussex State Prison ... nearly the entire population had been in Restricted Housing status for an ...

President Donald Trump signs executive order for mass deportation to ensue, while dissolving previous ban on private prisons. Here's what to know.

for-profit prisons in 2022, which represents approximately 8% of the total state and federal prison population, says the Sentencing Project. In July of 2023, over 90% of approximately 30,000 ...