A reentry program near Waco, Texas, has proven successful. Not only does every participant come out with a job, but their ...

Longtime criminal justice advocates discuss transparency, humane prison policy and breaking incarceration cycles.

Inspectors have revealed “deeply depressing” findings into female prisons as rates of self-harm are 8.5 times higher than ...

It's time for the Green Bay Correctional Institution to close. There is no excuse for the conditions in which inmates live ...

A man found guilty of kidnapping a woman and holding her and her children at gunpoint in a Fort Collins neighborhood has been sentenced to prison.

The Last Mile, a national nonprofit, is expanding its web development classes to prisons across the country, including in New England.

Across the country, about half of persons in prison failed to graduate high school, a figure much lower than the general ...

The Reentry Campus Program provides currently and formerly incarcerated individuals with an affordable pathway to a ...

James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

To reduce the number of formerly incarcerated citizens returning to prison, some communities are turning to restorative justice — a practice promoting accountability and healing for all parties ...

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, ...