The widespread availability of drugs in British prisons has long been among the more baffling conundrums of national life. How come institutions specifically built and managed to be secure have a drug ...

The Assembly may have passed its own watered-down version of prison reform Monday, but it leaves the state way short of actually fixing any of the problems swirling around the system. Nobody’s really ...

CALIFORNIA TRANSFORMED the way its prison population connects to the outside world by handing every incarcerated person an electronic tablet to make free ...

A 5,000-bed private-prison complex approved in July by the Pima County Board of Supervisors doesn’t yet have the final approval it needs from the Arizona Department of Corrections to house Arizona ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. Despite various leadership at the Bureau of Prisons, the ...

Responding to staffing shortages that imperiled guards and staff, Wisconsin lawmakers in 2023 significantly increased pay for corrections officers — hoping to retain and attract more workers to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus took turns questioning Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain on the ...

Wouldn't it be nice if we never had to send anyone to prison? That sure would be a fast way to save a lot of money and to maintain healthy families. One way to move in that direction would be to ...