New York's prisons are still in a state of emergency, lacking the staff they need to run properly and relying on a detachment of National Guard troops to shore up security staff headcounts. But for ...

Rikers Island is a century-old jail complex on an island sandwiched between the Bronx and Queens in New York City. It’s home ...

The recent jailbreak in New Orleans followed decades of dysfunction in the city's jail system and recent warnings that conditions were ripe for catastrophe. Among the most memorable scandals was ...

New York's enacted budget for fiscal year 2025 includes several reforms for state prisons and correction staff.

Jail administrator at the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center in Charleston, Stanley Davis, takes a look at progress made so ...

This followed a weeks-long strike among correction officers and the beating deaths of incarcerated individuals in New York’s state-run prison facilities. At Marcy Correctional Facility in ...

The Justice Department is working toward dropping reform agreements with police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky ...

Due in part to rising prison populations, understaffing has reached unsustainable levels, and there appears to be no end in ... criminal justice system. Matthew Charles is the state legislative ...

Top Georgia lawmakers acknowledged during this year’s legislative session that costly steps were needed to deal with a prison system operating in crisis mode, and they acted accordingly.

Most prisoners will have the chance to earn their way out of jail, under proposals set to be approved by the government.