Why does Louisiana lock up so many of its citizens? How did a broad coalition come together to reduce the prison population ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested Friday that a prisoner on Oklahoma’s death row be transferred from federal prison ...

Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender women from federal prisons for female inmates. The 47th ...

Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice is transferring incarcerated girls to the Ware Youth Center, with which the leader of the state office has a longstanding personal connection.

Pope Francis opening a Holy Door at Rebibbia Penitentiary on Saint Stephen day in Rome as part of the Catholic Jubilee Year Photograph by VATICAN MEDIA / Catholic Press Photo / MAXPPP Is Pope ...

A man and two women from Shreveport have been sentenced for their involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy which resulted ...

France's president and first lady hosted President Joao Lourenço and his wife, Ana Afonso Dias Lourenço of Angola.

However, since a loophole in the 13th Amendment permits “involuntary servitude” for those convicted of a crime, inmates are ...

Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) joined the Fort Monroe Authority for a roundtable with Dr. Wanda Tucker to discuss her trip ...

A former Lakes Region home improvement contractor has been sentenced to prison for allegedly stealing more than $200,000 in customers’ funds. The Belknap County Grand Jury indicted Gerard ...

The Briefing Room. Why do we have such overcrowded prisons? Audio, 28 minutesThe Briefing Room Why do we have such overcrowded prisons? Britain has the highest number of prisoners per head of ...

“Deliberately denying medical care to people in prison is torture,” highlighting a “troubling pattern of Angolan authorities withholding medical care as a means of punishing peaceful dissent.” Jackson ...