Gov. Larry Rhoden has announced the date of when lawmakers will weigh and pass legislation for a new state prison. The ...

The Vermont Department of Corrections is investigating the superintendent of the Southern State Correctional Facility for allegations of misconduct. Michaela Merrill has been placed on administrative ...

The Department of Corrections has placed Southern State Correctional Facility (SSCF) Superintendent Michaela Merrill on ...

Adrian Peeler was one of nearly 2,500 people who were pardoned by former President Joe Biden for federal drug charges.

In the early 1880s, multiple state institutions were divided throughout the Dakota Territory. Those institutions included the ...

The Florida governor relied on an executive order to seize the land, hire contractors, and bypass laws and regulations.

The Department of Corrections said Michaela Merrill was on administrative leave “pending the outcome of an investigation into ...

“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain,” Comey said in the ...

PONTIAC, MI -- A former pastor was sentenced to between 4 and 15 years in prison Thursday in connection with the 2023 sexual assault of a teen. Kenneth Flowers, 64, of Farmington Hills was sentenced ...

Trump administration officials have defended the mass dismissals, saying they are overdue and necessary to make the ...

Katz, the executive director of the independent prison monitor the John Howard Association, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the state of Illinois changing its prison health care provider.

Many who’ve been through restrictive housing attest to extreme isolation and confinement in small, dark, windowless cells.