Commissioner Tyrone Oliver told lawmakers the state’s prison population grew to more than 50,600 offenders by September 2025, ...

Sentence lengths have generally increased since 2020. The 2023 Protect Arkansas Act, which reduced parole eligibility and ...

Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes launched his campaign for governor as the likely Democratic primary frontrunner ...

The United States has the largest prison population in the world, far outpacing every other country. But how did it get this way? This video looks at the policies, laws, and social forces that created ...

Trump shocked Hondurans on Friday by endorsing one of the candidates and announcing that he would pardon ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a 45-year sentence in a US prison for drug ...

A plan to close Stillwater prison caught many people by surprise, including lawmakers who ultimately voted to do that as part of last year’s budget negotiations. So far, the plan to close the ...

Dozens of elderly inmates die of natural causes behind bars each year costing the state millions in medical bills for prisoners who advocates say are too infirm to pose any threat to the public. Forty ...

For the approximately 450,000 people released annually from US prisons, the chances are high that they’ll be back in a cell in 5–10 years. About 61 percent of state prisoners who were released in 2008 ...