People who go to prison keep one important right — to file a grievance over their treatment: from abuse to denied medical ...

A drawing of the planned men's prison in rural Lincoln County. (Courtesy of Department of Corrections) The South Dakota Legislature has set aside $569 million for the creation of a new men’s prison in ...

The widespread availability of drugs in British prisons has long been among the more baffling conundrums of national life. How come institutions specifically built and managed to be secure have a drug ...

KINGMAN, Ariz. — Arizona is essentially firing the private company that operates a Northwest Arizona state prison that has struggled with high-profile problems such as an inmate escape that led to a ...

The military, which in 2021 disclosed its last major internal relocation of Guantánamo prisoners, declined to discuss this week’s security operation. By Carol Rosenberg Carol Rosenberg has covered ...

A 5,000-bed private-prison complex approved in July by the Pima County Board of Supervisors doesn’t yet have the final approval it needs from the Arizona Department of Corrections to house Arizona ...

Pretty much everybody from Barack Obama to Carly Fiorina seems to agree that far too many Americans are stuck behind bars. And pretty much everybody seems to have the same explanation for how this ...

If Chicken Little were to declare that the sky is falling in California, he'd be correct given the sheer magnitude of that state's prison problems. Courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court, over the next ...