ALBANY - For Robert Brooks Jr., the murder of his father last year at the hands of multiple correction officers at Marcy Correctional Facility has transformed his life and put him on a path to be a ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Advocates for prison reform were in Albany on Tuesday, calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Omnibus Prison Reform Act into law. The bill would require correctional facilities to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The outsider brought in to reform the ailing federal Bureau of Prisons pledged Monday to hold accountable any employees who sexually assault inmates, reform archaic hiring practices ...

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The almost two-week-long manhunt for the Arkansas escaped inmate, Grant Hardin, may now be over, but state lawmakers say the most important questions still remain unanswered.

At an event Tuesday, Governor Abigail Spanberger along with other state leaders, announced major reform for the Virginia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The crisis at the Fulton County Jail reached a devastating new milestone this week as high-profile civil rights attorney Ben Crump ...

On Dec. 9, several correction officers at Marcy Correctional Facility near Utica didn’t know that their body cameras were recording what soon became clips seen across the country. The recordings ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Some Southern Indiana jails have turned to virtual reality to reform inmates. This opportunity aims to keep inmates from coming back to jail. "You're looking at the future of ...

Dozens of elderly inmates die of natural causes behind bars each year costing the state millions in medical bills for prisoners who advocates say are too infirm to pose any threat to the public. Forty ...

An inmate of Westgate Correctional Facility has called for an overhaul of the laws governing Bermuda’s prison services to ensure offenders can be released safely and productively back into society. In ...