Advocates are calling on Governor Gavin Newsom to permanently close the state's deactivated prisons before they can be ...

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, ...

The Montana Department of Corrections said Tuesday that it is considering three localities — Hardin, Butte and the greater ...

Two inmates have been killed and a correctional officer attacked since the beginning of June, say CDCR officials ...

Advocates are calling on Governor Newsom to fully decommission shuttered state prisons and prevent them from being repurposed ...

More New York state prisons could close this year after Gov ... Daniel Martuscello III, commissioner of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, will be required to provide ...

An Oklahoma judge has granted a temporary stay of execution to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has announced that all Level III and Level IV facilities ...

Oppression and violent crimes against women especially stalking and murders surged in 2017 Incidents like the rape and murder of sevenyearold Hasini Chandru or more recently the immolation of 21yearol ...