Justice Lassiter died by suicide in March 2023, more than two years into a seven-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark. If he'd made parole as soon as he was eligible, he would have ...

Utica, N.Y. — An inmate who was badly injured last month at a Central New York state prison has died, his family said. The inmate, Edward Sholtz, 22, died Sunday at Wynn Hospital in Utica ...

At least 200 acres of land inside the boundaries of the Wind River Reservation are also earmarked to provide revenue for corrections. Grist has identified nearly 2 million acres of state trust lands — ...

Following what New York state corrections officers say is a surge in incidents in which prison staff have fallen ill after exposure to inmates suspected of drug overdoses, state Sen. George ...

The decision to halt foreign aid abruptly cut U.S. funding to the prison guards overseeing the camp, leading some to stop showing up for work, according to one current and one former State ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order reversing former President Joe Biden's ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Along with this, Trump also signed an executive ...

The Times Union reported two years ago that an inmate at Attica state prison told corrections investigators that synthetic opioids prescribed to treat substance abuse problems in state prisons ...

The order also mandates housing transgender women in men’s prisons and halts funding for any gender-affirming medical care for inmates. A transgender woman serving in a federal prison has filed a ...

In South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana, about a quarter or more of the state prison population is Indigenous, even though Native people make up less than a tenth of each state’s population.

Rather than build new youth prisons, the state filled existing ones beyond capacity. By the mid-1990s, California youth prisons were overcrowded and violent. The public remained largely unaware of ...