A 45-year-old man has died while serving a fifteen-year sentence for manufacturing and distributing a controlled substance ...

The women’s prison at Vandalia is expected to open a nursery in February that can serve up to 14 mothers and their babies for ...

"We’re generating ideas to reimagine the site. We want people to think big, think creatively and think outside the box.” ...

A federal grand jury indicted a former jail administrator for allegedly beating a handcuffed incarcerated person in an Alabama jail and then lying about it to law enforcement, the Justice Department ...

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

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The federal prosecutor for the Southern District of West Virginia hopes the conviction of a former supervisor of Corrections Officers will help improve the culture surrounding the ...

There are 418 Missourians across the state on a waiting list for a mental health bed, up from around 300 at this time last ...