Tina Peters was sent to prison after acting on Trump’s 2020 ... “weaponized” prosecutions and a “two-tiered” justice system, Trump and his team are creating the very conditions the ...

The staff shortage in prisons continues to be costly as the system has about a third fewer guards than when fully staffed. About 11,359 correction officers are now on the job in prisons that hold ...

The Bureau of Prisons’ website summarized the penitentiary as “designed to be a prison system’s prison.” Since it was shuttered, it has become a national park and a tourist destination.

This action fired off a trend that saw states incorporate for-profit models into their own prison systems. As of 2022, 28 states had contracts with private prison firms. Connecticut stands apart ...

Tennessee houses approximately 22,000 individuals in its prison system, and each year thousands are released to reintegrate into society. But while Tennessee has made strides in reducing its ...

This shortage was exacerbated by the dismissal of over 2,000 guards following a weekslong strike that severely impacted the state's prison system. State lawmakers approved the measure on Wednesday ...

Alcatraz, a 22-acre (8.9 hectare) islet with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco skyline, was once the crown jewel of the federal prison system and home to some of the nation’s ...

He began his sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, but was transferred to Alcatraz in 1934 after allegations that Capone was receiving cushy treatment by manipulating the prison system ...

These are encouraging steps forward. However, this is by no means enough to reform our abusive and flawed prison system. For decades, correction officers have tortured incarcerated people with ...

it's possible to optimize the growing system—making it more like a plant factory than a standard greenhouse. Inmates studying in prison don't have internet access. Emails are printed out or relayed.

The Department of Corrections last year began working with Texas-based ICSolutions, the prison system’s phone provider, to make electronic tablets free for every state prisoner. The state ...

The safest, perhaps easiest thing, in the short term at least, is to lock people up. But with a prison system bursting at the seams, dogged by drugs and violence, rehabilitation is often a dream ...