The Florida Department of Corrections is facing a years-long staffing shortage, which experts say can lead to increased prison violence. A review of mortality data found that prisons with the most ...

COLUMBIA — Staffing violations that led to the ouster of Fairfield County Detention Center leadership have continued under an agreement that let the jail pay a fraction of a $1 million sanction.

Nearly 15 years after the state began reforming school discipline, suspensions are down but emergency removals have more than ...

Criminal justice reform groups want Bexar County to declare deaths at the detention center a public health emergency.

The US prison population is aging rapidly, and incarcerated seniors are not getting the care they need. Donald “Don” Snook is 73. He has been in prison for 52 years. Now incarcerated in Washington’s ...

The Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division recently changed its name to the Energy and Natural ...

California prisons are increasingly relying on an unusual fire alarm system: humans. Between 2020 and 2025, the California ...

Designed to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires ...

Congressional District 4’s incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga is running for reelection after Trump recommended he ...

Democratic lawmakers and others are calling for an investigation into allegations of medical failures and substandard care that may have contributed to the deaths of two immigrant detainees at Miami ...

Joshua Beasley Jr. entered the Texas juvenile justice system in 2018, when he was 11, after a series of misdemeanor offenses, including kicking a school safety officer and spitting on a police officer ...

Efforts to reform Oregon prisons are being undermined by crumbling facilities, staff shortages, and outdated systems, according to an audit.