Corrections Deputy Director Heidi Steward said the troubled health care system faces “a lot of challenges,” specifically in ...

The day before state authorities announced plans to restrict inmate movement and revoke visits and other privileges, three ...

The functioning of the judiciary reveals that it has exercised its powers in creative ways and devised new strategies to ensure the protection of human rights of prisoners. In recent decades, the ...

For years, Suave Gonzalez has been telling his story through TED talks and the Pulitzer-winning podcast Suave, but lately he’s focused on showing what he experienced through an art exhibit. Gonzalez ...

The strike that paralyzed New York prisons for three weeks ended with most workers returning to their jobs and the state firing 2,000 who stayed out.

The lawsuit was found moot as it involved prison conditions brought forth by prisoners, a matter the judge found did not ...

Ohio is spending $349,400 to buy Tasers for corrections officers at two high-security state prisons. The policy for how and ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has barred prison guards who were fired for illegally walking off the job from being hired for ...

A Connecticut correction officer was stabbed in the neck last summer, and deploying a caustic pepper spray on recalcitrant ...

State Rep. Dave Prestin, a Republican from Cedar River, is among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle calling for reform, ...