Killers, rapists and other serious sexual and violent offenders will be freed half way through their sentences ...

Across the United States, state prison systems are grappling with chronic understaffing and overcrowding — dual crises that are keeping incarcerated people confined to their cells for far longer ...

It’s going to take a lot more than a Supreme Court decision to reform our appalling prisons. Today the United States is the world’s warden, incarcerating more people than any other country ...

Unlike prisons, most jails are funded and managed locally, so the problems they face can vary widely from one county to the next ...

The author focuses on the importance of criminal sentencing policy to prison overcrowding and advocates comprehensive sentencing reform that emphasizes selective incapacitation of dangerous offenders ...

On Monday, however, the Supreme Court accepted an appeal in this California prisons-condition case. It is an ominous development, one that could make prisons far worse in all 50 states.

Article continues below this ad Incarcerated Salvadorans are packed into grossly overcrowded cells, beaten regularly by prison personnel and denied medicines even when they are available.

Prison overcrowding is damaging the prospect of ‘any meaningful rehabilitation’ among inmates, new documents have warned. In its annual report for 2023, the Prison Visiting Committee raised ...

Unlike prisons, most jails are funded and managed locally, so the problems they face can vary widely from one county to the next.