Two former West Virginia correctional officers have been sentenced to decades in prison for their roles in an assault that ...

As much of the nation adjusts this week to sudden and indefinite home confinement, prison and jail wardens across the U.S. are scrambling to forestall an outbreak of COVID-19 inside a crowded U.S ...

The female prison population has grown twice as fast as the male one over the past 35 years — and facilities are slowly starting to take women's experiences and needs into account.

“Prison And Jail Reentry And Health," Health Affairs Health Policy Brief, October 28, 2021. DOI: 10.1377/hpb20210928.343531 Caption. 1101 Connecticut ...

Nebraska is considering additional and different background checks for job applicants at state prisons after discovering that it had hired as a guard a man wanted in the Czech Republic on drug and ...

Jail vs. prison Ironically, despite the fact that many jail inmates will never even go to trial, let alone be convicted, the living conditions in jails tend to be worse than those in prisons.