The bills, which have already passed the State Legislature, would help prevent brutality in prisons, supporters say. But the ...

These days it seems everyone is getting on board with prison reform in one form or another, from President Obama to John Boehner—but federal prosecutors are battling the tide. According to a US News ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Legislators, advocates, and people with firsthand experience in New York prisons gathered at the Capitol in Albany on Tuesday morning to push for prison labor reforms. The ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A local grassroots organization, Center for Community Alternatives, is advocating for the passage of three prison reform bills aimed at protecting inmates. “The first bill is the ...

President-elect Donald Trump and nominees for his upcoming administration often discuss cutting spending to reduce the debt. Some of the targets are familiar, but one that is never mentioned is the ...

“Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in America’s deadliest prison system,” reads the logline for the HBO-backed documentary “The Alabama Solution.” But that does not begin to describe ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has floated several ideas to stabilize the state’s finances. Some are controversial, some ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Former federal prison warden Percy Pitzer has published "A Warden's Path," drawing from his career in corrections to advocate for prison reform and better community reintegration of ...

A former San Francisco prosecutor who helped produce a first-of-its-kind criminal justice reform law in the nation leads a nonprofit that works to safely release rehabilitated prisoners, allowing them ...

Following protests about deteriorating conditions, a yearlong lockdown and violence at Green Bay Correctional Institution, Gov. Tony Evers proposed a plan to shut down the prison as part of his next ...