Progressive lawmakers have re-surfaced legislation first introduced four years ago that would triple membership of what they ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Rashawn Cannon has been indicted in connection to the death of correctional officer Andrew Lansing on ...

Humphrey stated in a press release, the reason for filing the bill was because he didn’t feel ODMHSAS provided sufficient ...

The Midstate father of an inmate who died in Tennessee's largest private prisons wants to make sure no one else feels his ...

Jones died at Garner Correctional Institution after being pepper sprayed, restrained, struck and forcibly moved by correction ...

A Tampa Bay lawmaker is fighting for legislation that would protect the rights of prisoners in the state's corrections system ...

Rising prison health care costs are prompting corrections officials to rethink everything from medication distribution to ...

This may not be primarily a Midwestern story, but undocumented and legal immigrants live throughout the U.S. In pockets of ...

House Democrats on Tuesday moved their budget proposal to a final vote after beating back numerous amendments from ...

Robert Melvin, Northeast Region Director, R Street Institute Testimony in Support of MD HB 853: “Postconviction Review – Procedure to Reduce Duration of Sentence (Maryland Second Look Act).” Maryland ...

An officer who testified in favor of Wrigley's legislation told lawmakers something that was demonstrably untrue.

The facts and figures around rural healthcare in Pennsylvania are grave. That’s why it was unsurprising to hear Gov. Josh ...