Inside his cell on Rikers Island, Brian Croskey spends hours every day drawing elaborate artwork to free his mind.

We need to do this." Lawmakers have teed up at least $450 million this session for infrastructure and capital projects at the Department of Corrections, including $150 million for new prison beds, ...

"Enough is enough," Sanders said. "Arkansas has a chance to address this crisis head-on and help end our state's prison bed shortage, but we need to act now." ...

The disgraced hip-hop mogul has been in a New York jail for eight months as he awaits his racketeering and sex trafficking ...

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade The replacement of small prisons with large-complex prisons in Turkey—where mass incarceration is ...

The GEO Group wants to open a 1,200-bed detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But the city has gone ...

A bill that would have appropriated up to $750 million for a prison in Franklin County failed in the Arkansas Senate on Tuesday. Lawmakers voted 19-10 in favor of Senate Bill 354. Because it had an ...

"Enough is enough," Sanders said. "Arkansas has a chance to address this crisis head-on and help end our state's prison bed shortage, but we need to act now. The legislature must appropriate funds ...

Blackford Circuit Court Judge Brian Bade imposed a 12-year sentence — eight years in prison followed by four years on ...

Erik Ramsey’s suicide in solitary confinement highlights rising mental illness and a jump in such deaths in North Carolina ...

CHARLESTON -- From Little Rock to rural Franklin County, sparring over the proposed location of a new 3,000-bed prison shows... Penny Weaver is an award-winning journalist who covers crime ...