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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The number of prisoners in Turkey's prisons has reached 420,904, according to Oct 2025 prison statistics released by the Civil Society in the Penal System Association (CİSST). This marks a sevenfold ...

The U.S. prison population increased for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing a decade-long decline. The female prison population is growing at a faster rate than the male population, rising ...

The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline. A new prison population report from the federal Bureau of Justice ...

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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 ...

The Alabama Sentencing Commission said Friday that Alabama’s already overcrowded prisons could see inmate populations rise by nearly a third by 2030 due to new punitive laws passed by the Legislature.