Kerwin Pittman is transforming a shuttered prison into a reentry campus offering housing, job training and support to people leaving incarceration.

Ohio's state prisons ended 2025 more than 500 correction officers below full staffing, with 7.4% of all budgeted positions ...

A proposed state law offers non-violent offenders the chance to change ‘their lives, support their families and pay restitution to those they’ve harmed.’ ...

California lawmakers have a chance to pass a bill that would increase opportunities for diversion programs and lower ...

Netflix’s Unlocked: A Jail Experiment chronicles revolutionary changes to incarceration taking place at select prisons in the U.S. The second season of Unlocked: A Jail Experiment — which premiered ...

Every Michigan license plate is made at an Adrian prison, where roughly 40 minimum-security inmates staff a factory. Pay ...

The Open Society Foundations (OSF), a grant-making network based in New York City, is a longtime proponent of harm reduction.

The new year will see Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders embark on Year 3 as the state’s first female chief executive.

Hochul did not use her State of the State address to call for rolling back criminal justice reforms, as she did in 2022, 2023 ...

New research from Grinnell College finds that well-intentioned prison education programs may have unintended outcomes.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Jail and Prison Oversight Omnibus Bill Friday, which seeks to reform prisons across the state. The reforms in the bill include more cameras in prisons, ...

We’re heartened to see even the smallest increase in human dignity behind bars, like the earned living unit at Stillwater Correctional Facility: Men sleeping safely in their own cells; “high” wages ...