Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in ...

A recent report from the Prison Policy Initiative indicates that understaffed prisons are a symptom of American mass ...

North Dakota's county jails and state prisons have been bursting at the seams. Elected leaders are calling for meaningful ...

Alabama’s incarceration rate rose slightly between 2022 and 2023, with a 1.5 percent increase in inmates. Alabama saw a jump ...

For one hour Friday morning, Rep. Eric Murphy, R-Grand Forks, was “Chelsea, a formerly incarcerated woman trying to make ends ...

Arkansas currently has more than 17,000 of its just over 3 million people locked up in state prisons around the state, with ...

The prison population has been creeping back upward. New laws in some states instituting harsher punishments threaten to further fill prisons, many of which are already understaffed and overcrowded.

Overcrowding in French prisons is wosening each month, with new government figures revealing that facilities are housing ...