Inmates in Bolivia's overcrowded prisons are now able to reduce their jail time by reading books in a new program influenced by one in Brazil that aims to spread literacy and give hope despite a ...

sharing her space with up to seven other inmates. She'll have an en-suite room and a key to it, allowing her some freedom to ...

A photo provided by South Carolina Department ... on his prison record and offered to work to help rehabilitate other prisoners as long as he is behind bars. South Carolina has put 44 inmates ...

Staff at the Lovelock Correctional Center conspired to prevent Muslim inmates from praying at the religious faith’s ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has banned yet another book in its prisons. Except this time, it was written by inmates themselves. TEXAS LETTERS, an ongoing anthology of letters ...

Bailey is trying to seize about $19,000 from Honkomp under the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act, or MIRA, which ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A corrections officer at a New Mexico county jail is accused of orchestrating attacks in the shower on two inmates who suffer from mental illness, according to a police report.

Prison overcrowding has triggered emergency plans for the Northern Territory to shift dozens of inmates but the union for guards is going to court to stop it.

Another 1,100 prisoners are due to be released early next week as the government continues to battle with the issue of jail overcrowding. The first round of releases from prison happened in mid ...

The federal Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program, which allows state prisons to contract with private companies to provide inmate labor, stipulates that inmates must be paid the ...