James Carver spent 36 years in prison for allegedly setting one of the deadliest fires in Massachusetts history.

In a quarterly earnings call, the private prison company told investors that it plans to expand its operations across the ...

As Portland weighs expansion of an alternative crisis-response program, new data from a MindSite News-Medill investigation ...

Scared straight” programs don’t work. But that doesn’t mean incarcerated people shouldn’t mentor at-risk kids.

Trump's Justice Department has removed questions about gender identity and trans people from at least four federal surveys.

Trump’s white supremacist agenda to detain and deport millions of immigrants has been a boon to the private prison industry.

The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The ...

Last September, a young person at Louisiana’s Jackson Parish Jail tried to kill himself, according to documents obtained by The Appeal. When he called his dad and told him he was on suicide watch, his ...