BOISE – Soon after an ambush at a Boise hospital last year injured three correctional officers when a prison transport turned dangerous, the director of the state’s prison system said he made ...

Prisons across the U.S. are experiencing critical staffing shortages and a new study says that the prison complex may never recover ... so changes are coming. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Critical security systems across Britain’s prisons are being left unrepaired for extended periods, in some cases years, creating an environment where illicit drugs can easily flood into jails, a ...

There is no question: President Donald Trump’s focus on public safety has been successful. His commonsense stand for law and order has lifted his approval ratings and made fighting crime his strongest ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Nebraska has the country’s most or second most overcrowded prison system, depending on who you ask. Inspector General of the Nebraska Correctional System Doug ...

Prison overcrowding has reached such a crisis that current inmate numbers are already greater than the recommended capacity of the prison system after 1,500 more spaces are built by 2030. An official ...

Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, Emily Bazelon talked with Judith Resnik about her new book, Impermissible Punishments: How Prison ...