PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona’s prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and ...

Thalia Anthony receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The lawyer for the accused Bondi Beach gunman, Naveed Akram, commented in court that his client was subject to “very onerous ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado Department of Corrections officials forced inmates to work prison jobs through coercion that ultimately amounted to involuntary servitude, a Denver ...

America talks about recidivism as if it were a mystery. It isn’t. It is a predictable outcome of how we run prisons. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has tracked what happens after release for ...

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the number of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons has climbed to more than 9,300 as of the beginning of February 2026, a level the ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - State prisons in the United States became more violent and nearly 50% deadlier over the past five years as authorities struggled to keep enough guards on the job, ...

The Alabama prison system has moved three well-known inmate activists who supported a 2022 prison strike and were featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary about the troubled system to isolated cells ...

Immediately after President Trump’s election victory in 2024, private prison stocks soared and company executives could hardly contain their glee. As Trump’s immigration crackdown has accelerated, so ...

The top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees have requested a visit to the prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is being held, alleging preferential treatment ...

Minnesota’s chief of prisons is once again pushing back on repeated misinformation from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security (DHS). Paul Schnell, commissioner of the ...

The conditions in New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services’ secure youth prisons are deeply troubling. Children as young as 12 are being confined alone for hours without access to ...

Conditions at Connecticut’s prisons are dire, according to a damning report from the state’s prison ombudsman. DeVaughn Ward is responsible for investigating complaints and monitoring conditions ...