Arkansas Department of Corrections Secretary Lindsay Wallace has requested the agency’s board consider endorsing a “top-to-bottom assessment” of the system by which it classifies prison inmates. The ...

California's $17.5 billion prison system is over budget, contributing to a projected state deficit. Gov. Gavin Newsom has cut spending with prison closures.

Colorado corrections officials evacuated 179 inmates from a facility near Rifle Saturday as Garfield County issued evacuation notices in advance of the still-growing Lee fire in Rio Blanco County. The ...

Jordan Pasha, Security and Operations Supervisor at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington, on a path inmates at the women’s prison use to get to the recreation yard on ...

Arkansas doesn't have a legal way to bring someone back to the state to serve prison time if they are released by authorities ...

The Colorado Department of Corrections admits flaws in parolee risk assessments, which was exposed by 9NEWS, and highlights critical errors affecting public safety.

The state no longer is considering contracting with a private company to provide health care services in Iowa's nine prisons, ...