COMMENT: A new trial to tackle violence behind bars will only exacerbate the problem and put prisoners and guards at greater ...

Legislators in Trinidad and Tobago have extended a state of emergency after the attorney general said the twin-island ...

The state of emergency in Trinidad and Tobago has been extended following revelations by the attorney general that the nation ...

A federal judge reprimanded lawyers with a high-priced firm defending Alabama’s prison system for using ChatGPT to write ...

A small bone was found deep within a drain in the exercise yard of Shepton Mallet Prison, known as The World's Oldest ...

After four years on the job, Nick Deml is stepping down as commissioner of the Department of Corrections and former Burlington police chief Jon Murad is stepping up.

Iowa's Department of Corrections has officially started the search for a private healthcare company to run the medical ...

Lee Ashby said he is "a shadow of my former self" after being jailed under the now-banned Imprisonment for Public Protection ...

Residents of Ohio could soon see a new alert system that would provide notification to people when an inmate escapes from a ...

Yet challenges remain. Despite receiving more than $400 million annually under the First Step Act, the Bureau of Prisons has ...

Fort Smith's water distribution system does not have the capacity to serve the proposed Franklin County prison; in fact, ...