The widespread availability of drugs in British prisons has long been among the more baffling conundrums of national life. How come institutions specifically built and managed to be secure have a drug ...

May 28—ALBANY — There are less than two weeks of voting days left for this year's state legislative session, and a push to pass a package of prison reform bills could end with little progress as the ...

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal ...

A 5,000-bed private-prison complex approved in July by the Pima County Board of Supervisors doesn’t yet have the final approval it needs from the Arizona Department of Corrections to house Arizona ...

LINCOLN — The ACLU of Nebraska issued an ultimatum to Gov. Pete Ricketts on Monday: Take immediate action to address the state’s chronic prison overcrowding and staff shortages or get sued. Reporter - ...

Nebraska cannot incarcerate itself out of its prison overcrowding problems, a prison reform scholar said Thursday. Shon Hopwood, who spent almost 10 years in federal prison for five Nebraska bank ...

LINCOLN — Another inmate uprising at a Nebraska prison has two key state lawmakers considering whether to resurrect a special legislative committee to investigate the recent disturbances, as well as ...