As lawmakers move the 2026–27 state budget toward completion, they are intensifying efforts to address overcrowding and ...

The social costs of mass incarceration are staggering. Black and Latino residents are historically over-represented in ...

With early voting in the primary election underway, Dubois County voters have three candidates to choose from to run for sheriff on the Republican ticket in the November election. Tim Lampert, Jesus ...

Prisoners are burning holes in windows at HMP Manchester to allow them to snatch packages hanging from drones.

Executions then resumed in 1977, when double murderer Gary Gilmore was put to death by firing squad. A steady rise in ...

If Mamdani succeeds in closing Rikers Island, compulsory decarceration would become a permanent feature of the city’s ...

Boone County spends $2.5 million a year on housing inmates in other counties because its own jail is overcrowded.

A new state audit says failures in staffing, security checks and oversight at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office helped set the stage for the 2025 jailbreak ...

When a person is booked into the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in Nevada City or the Truckee Jail, the Nevada County ...

In a follow-up to January’s Truth Act forum, supervisors also noted that the Sheriff’s Office has pledged to be more ...

The number of arrests in Loudoun County fell slightly in 2025, data compiled by several local law enforcement agencies show, ...

Suicide observation here might cost well over $7,000 per day if officers still did the job, but under $320 per day to have ...