High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.

High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.

The Kentucky Department of Corrections says it takes issue with a state inmate’s story published online in the Prison Journalism Project.

For many incarcerated people, getting a full night’s sleep is almost impossible. Bright lights, loud noise, overnight head counts, early morning meals and other routine features of prison and jail ope...

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A Texas detention expert says turning a Hutchins warehouse into an ICE facility would fail basic standards and raise major environmental and infrastructure concerns.

Texas prison violence reached its highest level in at least a decade, prompting a monthslong lockdown in 19 lockups this summer.

Idaho Prison administration traveled overseas and brought back a new plan for state prisons.

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement.

A three day conference to bring together journalists, litigators, advocates, corrections officials, academics, and more.

Experts worry this punishment will lead to worse outcomes for kids who are transferred to adult facilities.

Trump ordered multiple agencies to rebuild the penitentiary, which was closed in 1963 over high operating costs and has been a tourist spot for decades.

A bipartisan push for more oversight comes after a sheriff flouted state law mandating independent investigations of jail deaths.

They want to beef up the powerful but little-known State Commission of Correction.

The county south of Houston is replacing its green inmate uniforms with "safety pink" in an attempt to discourage recidivism, enhance visibility for corrections officers and create a “calming atmosphe...

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As state legislatures convene in the coming weeks, many lawmakers are focusing on a key criminal justice issue for prisons and jails: more oversight.

As state legislatures convene in the coming weeks, many lawmakers are focusing on a key criminal justice issue for prisons and jails: more oversight.

Advocates and relatives of people in prison say they're facing lockdowns that hit hard during the holidays.