Many people know that prisons in the United States are divided into a five-tier security level system, but few know what those rankings actually mean. The classification of inmates is probably the ...

South Dakota is on a path to invest $2 billion into its corrections facilities in the next decade as a result of its ...

I wondered how much time she has spent inside a jail or prison. I spent 15 years as a mental health professional inside the Penitentiary of New Mexico, a high-level security prison. I am the first ...

About 250 former Level 2 inmates at Kinross were sent to higher-security prisons after the Sept. 10 disturbance, which corrections officers described as a prison riot but the administration said ...

Last fall, Illinois emptied the maximum security prison at Stateville Correctional ... which is part of the reason funding is at relatively the same level. “With Stateville empty and the NRC ...

The other dedicated over 20 years of career service in maximum and medium security ... in prisons. Due in part to rising prison populations, understaffing has reached unsustainable levels, and ...

announced that it’s placing Level IV high-security sections within its facilities on a modified program, effective Saturday.