Georgia Department of Corrections has tightened its efforts to impede the release of information about its prisons as it faces…
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The Missouri woman who persuaded an online boyfriend to kill her mother after she had forced her to pretend for…
The season is upon us, the annual fetishization of prison food, public discussions of what prisoners will eat on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. It’s become so standard that TMZ has a template for it now: “Celebrity Prisoners Thanksgiving Meals Revealed” has been the headline for the past three years. The unfortunate part of this coverage is that it’s the least interesting part of the correctional culinary experience.
Glynn Simmons, a 71-year-old man who spent nearly 50 years in prison for murder, has been exonerated, making him the…
The New York City Council is expected to approve a bill that would ban solitary confinement, despite continued opposition by…
At least one police officer has been killed and 14 other people have been injured during an operation to regain…
The search for a man serving a life sentence in a Texas prison for sexually abusing a child ended Sunday…
Legislation signed by Governor Josh Shapiro will limit the circumstances under which a non-violent offender on probation can be sent…
A temporary program in Idaho that houses “dangerously mentally ill” patients, who often face no criminal charges, in prisons has…
A 126-page lawsuit filed by former and currently incarcerated Alabamians, unions and civil rights organizations accuses the Alabama prison labor…