The Wisconsin Department of Corrections will finally hold a hearing this week on implementing a 2014 law offering ...

Future generations will judge Governor Green’s legacy. Will the governor choose to mortgage our future on a super jail that will fiscally hamper the state and result in more residents, disparately ...

Brian Koehn, a Marine Corps veteran and former warden, is leading a movement to transform the criminal justice system with ...

Officials credit multiple programs aimed at supporting those incarcerated, helping them successfully reintegrate into society ...

A state lawmaker wants to triple the rate local jails are paid to house inmates who are waiting to be transferred to a state ...

Sheriff Gerald Sticker says the new $250,000 X-ray scanner is part of a security overhaul in his first year on the job.

The South Dakota Department of Corrections said Sunday that 55-year-old inmate Joseph Schmitz died at the Mike Durfee State ...

Kevin Rentner is the president of the Cowlitz Valley Runners club and the Three Rivers Christian cross country coach and R.A.

The Trump administration faults California’s sanctuary state law. However, that law does not protect people convicted of serious crimes ...

The massive piece of legislation to which President Donald Trump has just attached his legacy allocates $170 billion for immigration and border enforcement over the next four years—including $45 ...

CHARLESTON -- "The site is suitable for development," a State of Arkansas official declares in a document preceding the more than 800-page preliminary site assessment of Franklin County land where a ...

A Michigan Department of Corrections report says the rate of repeat offenders being returned to prisons is at an all-time low ...