In South Carolina, officials thwarted an unusual prison smuggling attempt involving crab legs, steak, Old Bay seasoning, ...

The Nation-- On May 23, the US Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision ordering California to release tens of thousands of inmates from its overcrowded prisons on the grounds that their living ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Crime must have consequences; I’m sure we can all agree on this point. How we go about creating those ...

The U.S. Justice Department says it has reasonable cause to believe that Georgia violates the Eighth Amendment by failing to protect incarcerated persons from violence and sexual abuse, and by failing ...

Christopher Boose awoke to see a sign for the paraplegic unit at the hospital where he had arrived five hours earlier, shackled and drifting in and out of consciousness. “Cut it off,” he remembered ...

Judge Lambert also found that trans-identifying inmates would be subjected to a “significantly elevated risk of physical and sexual violence” if housed with biological men. For those checking: Women ...

A second federal judge halted the transfer of three transgender inmates into a male prison facility that followed President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order requiring federal accommodation ...

One prisoner had been dead for so long that when he was discovered lying face down, his face was flattened. Another was tied up and tortured for two days while no one noticed. Bloody inmates screamed ...

The state has some of the country's most overcrowded — and troubled — prisons. Alabama is also home to a thriving life skills program that... Budget Cuts Threaten A Unique Alabama Prison Education ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on ...