ALBANY, N.Y. — Advocates for prison reform were in Albany on Tuesday, calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Omnibus Prison Reform Act into law. The bill would require correctional facilities to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The outsider brought in to reform the ailing federal Bureau of Prisons pledged Monday to hold accountable any employees who sexually assault inmates, reform archaic hiring practices ...

Advocates are calling for an independent investigation into the stabbing and subsequent treatment of Oklahoma Department of Corrections inmate Charles Tiger.

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Robert Brooks Jr., whose father was fatally beaten at Marcy Correctional Facility 11 months ago, said he would like to meet Gov. Kathy Hochul “and just have a real conversation with her, just so she ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. — Two days after a deadly riot at Washington State Prison left three men dead and more than a dozen injured, two former Georgia inmates say the violence was not an isolated ...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — The family of Robert Brooks, an inmate from Rochester who died after being beaten by corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility, is calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to ...

A prison reform advocate says she warned staff at a Tucson prison that a prisoner told her he needed to be isolated so that he wouldn't kill anyone. She says her warnings went unheard because he is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The crisis at the Fulton County Jail reached a devastating new milestone this week as high-profile civil rights attorney Ben Crump ...