In an innovative program at a jail in Athens, inmates face their past and are given more freedom. The goal? That they stop coming back.

After losing his son in a private prison, Tim Leeper fought for reform, and Tennessee lawmakers listened. Now, private ...

The Legislature did its job passing changes in the wake of two killings; the governor needs to act with speed to make them ...

The Legislature has responded to the recent killings of two inmates by New York State corrections officers inside prisons ...

Advocates held a vigil outside Green Bay Correctional Institution. Gov. Tony Evers has proposed shutting down the prison.

By Benjamin Oreskes Reporting from the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y. The close of New York State’s legislative session in ...

Headway Prison Reform Left Women Behind. Then Prosecutors Stepped In. California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) – The penal system in Barbados is undergoing a wave of reforms and developments to make the prison service more sustainable, rehabilitative, and responsive to the ...

New York lawmakers were planning to pass a package of 10 bills Thursday to reform New York's embattled state prison system, including a proposal to require jailhouses to provide all ...

A Tennessee businessman and prison reform advocate pardoned by President Donald Trump for federal drug convictions is now second in command of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Joshua J. Smith, 50 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The death of Robert Brooks led to a new package of bills that tackles prison reform. The announcement came days after Marcy corrections officers, charged in the killing ...

ALBANY, N.Y. – New York State lawmakers have passed prison reform bills aimed at overhauling the state’s watchdog agency, the State Commission of Correction. (SCOC) The bills grant ...