Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks ... say is a pattern of “systemic overdetention” that violates inmates’ rights and costs taxpayers millions of dollars a year.

I'm happy with the people here all getting together for us, the new change, because this wasn't even heard of when I started coming to York County Prison," one inmate said."This isn't just about ...

The decision leaves three federal inmates to face execution ... the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File) This combination photo shows federal death row inmates Robert Bowers, from left, the gunman who massacred 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, ...

By Ed Shanahan Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York has ordered that 13 corrections officers and a prison nurse be fired after the fatal beating of an inmate in an attack that their union called ...

An inmate who died in June at the state prison in Yuma just days after undergoing hernia repair surgery succumbed from an unrelated and natural cause, according to an autopsy performed after a federal ...

Last week, the inspector of prisons Mark Kelly said in a report on Cloverhill Remand Prison that “violence was the inevitable result” of overcrowded cells, with inmates subject to degrading ...

President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences, commuting their sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The announcement is sure ...

26, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s governor has ordered more than a dozen prison ...

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. Best ...

The vast majority of death-row inmates whose sentences President Joe Biden reduced Monday are currently housed in an Indiana prison. Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 men awaiting ...