The Brennan Center released a report on incarceration and the need to embrace a change in how we look at it. The Bureau of ...

Because no federal law establishes nutritional standards for prison meals, a patchwork regulatory system—comprised of ...

America talks about recidivism as if it were a mystery. It isn’t. It is a predictable outcome of how we run prisons. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has tracked what happens after release for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Busà Photography The United States’ federal prison system no longer offers gender-affirming care to incarcerated trans people ...

The First Step Act represented one of the most significant federal prison reform efforts in decades. Passed with bipartisan support in 2018, the law was intended to reduce recidivism, expand ...

Bipartisan legislation aims to raise pay for federal correctional officers and improve safety inside federal prisons, including facilities serving Illinois. A news release says the Federal ...

A Mabelvale man who had just completed supervised release after serving 39 months in federal prison for being a felon in ...

US President Donald Trump asked Congress on Friday for $152 million to begin rebuilding the notorious Alcatraz prison, ...

FLINT, MI – A Flint man admitted in federal court to orchestrating a perjury scheme that briefly secured his release from prison before his plan was exposed by text messages on contraband cell phones.