Pennsylvania is emerging as a proving ground for preparing people in prison to rejoin society, per a new report from the ...

Americans have been shocked by revelations of the abuse of Iraqi detainees at the hands of US troops. Politicians from the President on down have called the abuse -un-American- and -inconsistent with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island and the Roger Williams University School of Law Prisoners’ Rights Clinic are ...

States of all political stripes, including Oklahoma, North Dakota and Massachusetts, have sent officials to tour prisons in Germany in search of ways to improve conditions for American inmates. At ...

Federal Prisons, and state prisons across the country, are suffering from a lack of workers to fill these important jobs. What will it take to change it. The staffing crisis in American prisons did ...

An Oscar nomination almost feels like an afterthought, according to the directors of “The Alabama Solution.” The critically acclaimed film is up for best documentary feature at the 98th Annual Academy ...

(CNN) — The Trump administration is escalating efforts to crack down on gangs that move illicit drugs into the United States, with deadly military strikes at sea and measures to toughen up borders ...

As paralegals with the ACLU’s National Prison Project, we spend a lot of our time speaking to and corresponding with people in our nation’s prisons, jails, and detention centers, and their loved ones.