The increasing number of elderly women in Japanese prisons highlights broader social challenges, including poverty and ...

By pursuing these measures, the agency can advance the criminal justice reforms initiated in 2018 to improve reentry services ...

Readers comment on OKC's inaction on new jail, urge teacher training and inclusion of disabled students, and wasteful expense on Bibles.

The administrator of the County Correctional Center believes that rather than leasing the jail's soon-to-open expanded space to the state, contracts to hold federal and state inmates could pay for the ...

El Paso Matters Staff January 17, 2025 This is your weekly news roundup, which takes a quick look at some developments in government, politics, education, environment and other topics across El Paso.

Deputies said a man who was recently released from prison, now finds himself back behind bars after he was arrested at a hotel in Chester, South Carolina. Around 7 a.m. Wednesday, the Chester County ...

Reps. Maxine Waters and Brad Sherman reintroduce legislation that would require a study assessing the danger wildfires pose ...

The House of Representatives on Wednesday unveiled plans to probe the activities of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) ...

Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in ...

After deaths, stabbings and lawsuits, the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center hopes that a major renovation can save the ...

A prison nurse who helped inmates carry out a phone-smuggling racket has kept her freedom. Kimberly Finn, from Boldon, was an ...

Kimberly Finn was an agency nurse at HMP Durham when she agreed to pass a package to an inmate so he could give it to another ...