Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state of Oklahoma has taken ownership of a prison in Lawton, completing a $312 million purchase of what had been the state’s ...

A U.S. judge has ordered a takeover of the health care operations in Arizona. The decision comes after a 2022 verdict that concluded Arizona had violated prisoners' rights with inadequate health care.

An article in The Criminologist, written by Nancy Rodriguez, University of California Irvine professor of criminology, law and society, shines a light on the lack of prison violence metrics that could ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Former federal prison warden Percy Pitzer has published "A Warden's Path," drawing from his career in corrections to advocate for prison reform and better community reintegration of ...

The state of Oklahoma has taken ownership of a prison in Lawton, completing a $312 million purchase of what had been the state’s last remaining private prison. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections ...