Given the connection of prison conditions and public safety, Newsweek has investigated where the country's best and worst ranked prisons are located. The map shows how each U.S. state ranks in ...

Teaching Fellow Alex Negron leads a class at Sheridan Correctional Center on Feb. 11. Legislation in the Illinois statehouse could open state financial aid up to college students in prison.

The Illinois Senate is considering legislation to restore the Monetary Award Program funding, or MAP grants, for incarcerated people. These grants help lower-income people attend college.

WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Prisons is shuttering a troubled special detention unit in Illinois that has been plagued by inmate deaths, suicides and the reported sexual harassment of guards.

Given the connection of prison conditions and public safety, Newsweek has investigated where the country's best and worst ranked prisons are located. The map shows how each U.S. state ranks in ...