Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PIERRE — As a farmer, Marty Overweg would hate to see perfectly good farmland wasted on building a prison. That's one of his ...

In an epic case of, “Tag, you’re it!,” the French government is building a “high-security prison” in the middle of the Amazon jungle in French Guiana. This prison will house the most dangerous ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and Islamic militants near a former penal colony in French Guiana, sparking an outcry among residents ...

Sarah Sanders and former corrections secretary Joe Profiri discuss corrections goals and the need for a new prison in this undated file photo. Credit: John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate Gov. Sarah Huckabee ...

A little more than two years ago, in December 2023, a consulting firm hired by Lancaster County’s commissioners to help plan the construction of a new prison estimated building the facility on a ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County commissioners aren’t showing interest in building a new prison on a light industrial site at 17th Street and Margaret Avenue, as suggested this week by a local retired ...