Justice Lassiter died by suicide in March 2023, more than two years into a seven-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark ... department's internal affairs unit, known as the Special ...

The budget proposal says closing two state prisons would result in an estimated annual cost savings of over $100 million and closing two state-run centers would save an additional $10 million ...

Josh Shapiro’s proposed state budget presented on Tuesday includes plans to close two state prisons. The $51.5 billion proposal recommends shuttering the prisons based on a downward trend in the ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

visited the Central Prison in Nizamabad on Monday (February 3) to announce the opening of a new weaving unit. The unit was established by transferring weaving machines from the Central Prison in ...

All are alleged members of the Islamic State group, captured during the final days of the extremists’ so-called caliphate declared in large parts of Iraq and Syria. The Gweiran Prison ...

At least five prisoners killed after attacking guards Islamic State prisoners tried to escape Tajik jail Three prison guards injured DUSHANBE, Feb 4 (Reuters) - At least five prisoners who ...

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. When Jaquan Myers was sent to the Franklin ...

Utica, N.Y. — An inmate who was badly injured last month at a Central New York state prison has died, his family said. The inmate, Edward Sholtz, 22, died Sunday at Wynn Hospital in Utica ...

Just over four years ago on the campaign trail, Joe Biden made a bold pledge to voters that as president he would end the federal use of private prisons ... and the state of Washington ...