2.4 incarcerated people for every corrections officer —double the national average and four times the ratio in the federal prison system. Eighteen prison staff members participated in the murder ...

CoreCivic could be one of the biggest beneficiaries of new federal contracts under President Trump. CBS News took a look at safety records at its prisons in Tennessee.

“Being in the prison system, anyone that says that it’s a fair shake — it’s not. Because I dealt with young African American males in the prison that I was in that were not treated the sam ...

During the non-jury trial in the Court of Claims two years ago, there was conflicting testimony from some prison employees about details that followed the first incident. For instance, a nurse who ...

The crisis in Ecuador’s prisons has escaped the confines of the penitentiary system to sow violence, corruption, and chaos around the country. The political assassinations, terrorist-style attacks, ...

The contract between the Arkansas Department of Correction and HDR, an Omaha-based architectural firm, and Cromwell, a Little ...

In a daring jailbreak, inmates, some of whom are facing murder charges, managed to escape from Orleans Parish Prison around 1am on May 16. By the evening of May 17, three of the escapees - Kendell ...

“We’re also taking initiative.” He advocates for a prison management system that embraces policies for open prisons, rehabilitation homes and industrial villages. - The Kathmandu Post/ANN ...