The State Department has notified Congress of an updated reorganization of the massive agency. The planned changes include ...

Lawmakers must act swiftly to put an end to these flawed contracting practices and invest in public defense systems.

Nayib Bukele rose to near-total control of El Salvador on a tide of support from the very gang he’s credited with defeating.

The House and Senate approved a pair of bills to purchase the state's last private prison outright for $312 million.

One is idleness reduction. So essentially ... Another is financial reasons, so feeding the prison population or producing profits for the prison system. There’s also more or more, I should ...

Newsom has already approved the closure of three prisons since 2019. The state's prison population has declined over the years, even after voters last year passed a tough-on-crime ballot measure ...

Even though women are the fastest-growing segment of the prison population, no agency tracks vital statistics ... Failure to report would result in a 10% reduction in federal funding. Ossoff’s inquiry ...

Boscio noted the Close Rikers plan provides for roughly 3,500 beds, which would require a drastic reduction in the current population to reach that limit. “Tell me what you’re going to do once ...

“Sentence reduction is one of, if not the strongest incentive for ... that would have granted near term merit time release to approximately 3% of the prison population – only if they have excellent ...

Estimates suggest that there has been a 53% reduction in crime in Scotland between 2008 and 2021/22 at the same time as the prison population has remained the same. A crime rate of 52.8 per 1000 ...

For example, the program would not reduce the prison population enough to close a cell block, said prison warden Earl Reitz. The county is also asking for two full-time and three part-time ...