Formerly incarcerated people face many challenges getting re-adjusted into society. One group is helping women build their communications skills through mock job interviews.

A historic building in Sneedville that served as the Hancock County Jail for more than a century was destroyed by a fire on Monday. Sheriff Brad Brewer said the fire is considered ...

New York State Department of Corrections Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello III said on Wednesday that he remains committed ...

Prison bosses are under increasing pressure to remove male-born trans prisoners from the female estate after the watershed ...

The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the definition of a woman in equality law is based on biological sex.

A new budget request would allow the Office of the Inspector General to monitor 350 of an estimated 2,400 staff sexual misconduct complaints.

Maya Grantham, senior associate solicitor for Leigh Day, said the Supreme Court ruling would not affect hundreds of prisoners but it could “gravely affect very vulnerable prisoners quite severely”.

Intended to curb prison violence with promises of early release, the law is turning out as unbalanced as critics feared, with ...