Stark commissioners formally moved forward with jail renovation plans Wednesday. Next steps include finalizing designs and setting a maximum price.

The 64-year-old Yan Pei-Ming is a contemporary artist who has been living in France since 1981. He is known for his “epic-sized” portraits of figures such as Chairman Mao, St. Pope John Paul II, Bruce ...

Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000-bed prison.

The father of Robert Brooks Sr., the NYS inmate who was beaten to death on camera inside the Marcy Correctional Facility in December.

Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

The well-stocked pantry can members and their families get past a financial rough patch; a supply closet can help them ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

The president's mass deportation plans could funnel huge profits to private prison companies like Geo and CoreCivic.

Prison violence remains a significant yet underreported issue in the U.S. criminal justice system, leading to unsafe ...

The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 ...

Gov. Greg Gianforte is asking lawmakers for 500 additional beds at the Deer Lodge prison. With the state prison full, more ...

An Arkansas lawmaker hopes to put a stop to a prison that's planned to be built in Franklin County, asking the state to ...