The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said it will use the report as part of the process of planning, putting out requests for proposals and hiring a contractor to build the new OCCC ...

Assad’s regime and the dictator’s flight spread over the weekend, many Syrians rushed to the public squares to celebrate. In Damascus, women draped in the green-and-black flag of the Syrian opposition ...

The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that it has reopened two more dorms in the previously closed San Bruno Jail Annex to make room for a growing inmate ...

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

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 ...

State Senator Brian King is aiming for a new project aimed at halting Governor Sarah Sanders' controversial prison expansion ...

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 ...

The recent controversy over building a state prison in Franklin County brought back memories of another fight over a proposed penitentiary that I had a minuscule involvement in back in the late 1980s.