Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Correctional Officer Jose Sandoval inspects one of the more than 2,000 cell ...

After the slaying of two prison guards this year, Public Safety Secretary Mary Ann Saar faces tough questioning by legislators at a hearing today in Annapolis. In a telephone news conference with ...

A drawing of the planned men's prison in rural Lincoln County. (Courtesy of Department of Corrections) The South Dakota Legislature has set aside $569 million for the creation of a new men’s prison in ...

The widespread availability of drugs in British prisons has long been among the more baffling conundrums of national life. How come institutions specifically built and managed to be secure have a drug ...

The state prison on South Wilmot Road is being converted into a health facility for inmates throughout the state in an effort to reduce costs for the Department of Corrections, authorities said. The ...

Pretty much everybody from Barack Obama to Carly Fiorina seems to agree that far too many Americans are stuck behind bars. And pretty much everybody seems to have the same explanation for how this ...

KINGMAN, Ariz. — Arizona is essentially firing the private company that operates a Northwest Arizona state prison that has struggled with high-profile problems such as an inmate escape that led to a ...

A 5,000-bed private-prison complex approved in July by the Pima County Board of Supervisors doesn’t yet have the final approval it needs from the Arizona Department of Corrections to house Arizona ...

MADISON, Wis. - State lawmakers heard from family members of the incarcerated, former employees and consultants on problems within the Wisconsin Department of Corrections on Tuesday, June 9. It comes ...

If Chicken Little were to declare that the sky is falling in California, he'd be correct given the sheer magnitude of that state's prison problems. Courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court, over the next ...