In a nutshell In his update to the Tarrant County Commissioners Court during a special meeting, Waybourn said the DOJ sent ...

Waybourn said jailers had intervened and stopped 279 suicide attempts in 2023, and that number is already 350 this year.

USC professor Berislav Zlokovic is on leave after whistleblowers cast doubt on his published work and derailed trials for an ...

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) conducted the report during their visit from May 13-15 earlier this year. The N.I ...

Alabama prisons have a horrible reputation. Officials are trying to better that reputation by creating two new playgrounds to improve visitations.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed Department of Corrections Secretary Cheryl Strange to the National ...

Many men at the Miami-Dade Correctional Institute, an aging complex lacking air conditioning in housing areas, suffered from ...

And so it appears they need a court to order them to do what they should have done on their own,” said Andrew Udelsman, an ...

we have enacted nation-leading reforms that have created a more humane corrections system while also improving public safety. I look forward to participating with other national leaders at the ...

A Umatilla County Circuit Court judge this week blasted the Oregon Department of Corrections for failing to respond to “a slew” of complaints against a prison guard whose apparent invitation ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...