Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

Shares of private prison companies have grown since the election. Those facilities could expand under Trump, despite claims ...

Lawmakers and local officials are urging the Colorado Joint Budget Committee (JBC) to reconsider a proposal to close the ...

The Last Mile, a national nonprofit, is expanding its web development classes to prisons across the country, including in New England.

More than 1,000 California inmates have been fighting the wildfires, a controversial practice that dates back to 1915 and results from a complex intersection of public safety, labor economics, and ...

Jan. 21—LIMA — A defendant in the Allen County Common Pleas Court was sentenced Tuesday to a minimum of 17 years in prison on charges of aggravated burglary and felonious assault. Rocky Hayner, 30, is ...

It requires that the federal government use the term “sex” instead of “gender,” and directs the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security ... such as prisons and rape ...

As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by ... Two of the camps are for incarcerated women. They are minimum-security facilities staffed with correctional personnel who supervise ...

A private immigration prison in Tacoma must pay $23 million in back wages and penalties for violating Washington’s minimum wage law ... provide a voluntary work program to detainees.

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

Gov. Sanders discusses prison expansion, work requirements for Arkansas’ Medicaid programs January 16, 2025 at 12:23 p.m. | Updated January 17, 2025 at 7:32 a.m.