Eventually social furloughs, available to only well-behaved inmates in minimum security, fell out of favor “because our directors all got very nervous because of the Willie Horton situation,” says ...

Officials at the La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution discovered a prisoner missing late Saturday evening.

From license plates to furniture and clothing, states use forced prison labor to make a range of products that government ...

The Stanley Correctional Center would be converted from a medium to a maximum security prison and the prison in Hobart would be expanded to add 200 minimum security beds. Another key part of the ...

Gov. Tony Evers will propose nearly $500 million in his budget to overhaul the state's prisons. The plan will include tearing down the 127-year-old Green Bay Correctional Institution and a massive ...

The multi-tiered plan starts with finally closing the troubled Lincoln Hills and Cooper Lake juvenile correctional facilities in northern Wisconsin and building a new one near Madison at the site of a ...

Signed into law in December 2018, the First Step Act allows prisoners — primarily those in minimum and low security — to ... their sentences in the United States even though they’re US ...

The Republican was ordered to arrive at the prison's minimum security satellite camp Monday for a 21-month sentence. Kelsey, 47, pleaded guilty in November 2022 to charges related to his attempts ...