Over the last year, Mexico has suffered from a seemingly never-ending list of escapes, riots and murders in its prisons. In October 2008, prison inmates hurled grenades and sprayed Kalashnikov rounds ...

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 report that was made on the prison investigation blamed overcrowding as a large part of the problem. Prison gangs were also blamed, but the investigator said many problems could be mitigated with ...

Check out this great opinion piece at CNBC.com by David Shapiro of the ACLU National Prison Project about the problems with the for-profit, private prison industry. Says David: Now is the time for ...

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 ...

Wisconsin lawmakers have offered few remedies for deteriorating prison conditions spotlighted this year by investigative journalism and criminal charges against nine Waupun prison officials following ...

The South Central Correctional Center leaves LGBTQ people defenseless, so they’re organizing to fight for their safety.

Drugs and weapons aren’t the only contraband in prisons these days. The latest underground currency among inmates is an item most of us consider harmless: the cell phone. And so far, prison officials ...

The state prison on South Wilmot Road is being converted into a health facility for inmates throughout the state in an effort to reduce costs for the Department of Corrections, authorities said. The ...

MADISON, Wis. - State lawmakers heard from family members of the incarcerated, former employees and consultants on problems within the Wisconsin Department of Corrections on Tuesday, June 9. It comes ...

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 ...