York County Prison, like most jails nationwide, faces rising prison costs due to an increasing number of inmate mental health ...

A federal criminal complaint alleges Quiana Thompson delivered narcotics into the jail, leading to an inmate overdosing last year. She was arrested last week.

A lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas alleges that the state's parole ...

A federal judge ended a consent decree that was triggered by excessive use of solitary confinement, pepper spray at the Lincoln Hills youth prison.

He walked toward the cellblock in Riverside Correctional Facility, pulling a cart of books behind him. For a moment, it was quiet. The only sounds that echoed off the jail’s cinder block walls were ...

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law has released a report detailing how federal funding cuts are undermining the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act, which has led to increased risks for ...

Gov. Tony Evers is asking a federal judge to lift restrictions put in place nearly a decade ago because of excessive force at the youth prison complex.

On Tuesday, Jessica Lynn Larson, 38, was sentenced to six months in prison followed by one year of supervised release.

Court documents show Lawson, who worked in OPSO’s Grants Department from 2022 to 2024, created a fake company, Williams James ...

It was November 2023, in a staff break room at South Idaho Correctional Institution, when prison guard Blas Covarrubias ...

The new Arkansas prison policy banning books mailed to inmates has been delayed. Here's a look at why.

While the Trump administration repeatedly claims its immigration operations are getting "the worst of the worst off our ...