In California, incarcerated people become firefighters, but the low pay — and few job prospects when they're out — can make it a difficult choice.

The Middlesex Sheriff’s Office has just become the first in the state of Massachusetts to install a naloxone vending machine, ...

Called Connecting Families, it's part of a national effort by Worth Rises, a New York-based advocacy group focused on decarceration.

Persevere, a program piloted last year in the Florida Department of Corrections, teaches eligible inmates to become ...

This story was updated to include a comment from the Bexar County District Attorney's Office. A former Bexar County Jail ...

As a result of her actions, many female staff at the prison had reported an increase in being "hit on" by inmates and were ...

I am expecting a pardon and believe every J6er deserves a pardon, whether they were violent or nonviolent,” Box said, ...

Some of the coding program’s first students were female inmates in New England. Some of the alumni from this group created and maintain a site called Reentry Sisters devoted to helping women in ...

Their duty is to keep order and ensure that those in the facility’s care serve out their sentences, which means safeguarding them from dangers including other inmates, environmental hazards and ...

“Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reveals that over 80% of inmates in Nigeria are unsentenced, many of whom have been detained for periods longer than the maximum sentences for ...

Body-worn camera footage released Friday shows correctional officers at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York punching and kicking a handcuffed inmate in a fatal beating that is now ...

A prison officer has been arrested after she was allegedly filmed having sex with an inmate. Footage of the guard and male prisoner was shared with prisoners at HMP Five Wells, Northamptonshire ...