Trucks move across Terminal Island, shared by the ports of L.A. and Long Beach, in 2021. A new California prison reform bill focuses too narrowly on training workers to fill trucking jobs. (Carolyn ...

Steve "Bull" Durham, who has been a California corrections officer for decades, sees a need for the profession to change. He recently visited Halden prison in Norway with members of the California ...

NOW TO AN ACTION NEWS EXCLUSIVE. WE SIT DOWN WITH THE WARDEN OF ONE OF CALIFORNIA'S MOST DANGEROUS PRISONS TO TALK ABOUT HIS VISION FOR CHANGING PRISON CULTURE. ACTION NEWS REPORTER CAITLIN CONRAD ...

OSLO, Norway — The minimum-security Bastoey Prison, a lockup on a lush island that has often been compared to a summer camp, now has claimed a new distinction: the world’s first ecological prison.

The prison library. With 120 inmates and 70 staff (35 of whom are guards) Bastoy is Norway's largest low-security prison but it is one of four others dotted around the country 'I spent ...

FARGO — When Karianne Jackson visited a Norwegian prison a couple of years ago, the North Dakota prison system official thought all she’d learn was how to make a prison look like Ikea. Photos of ...

In Garner, a prison in Newtown where the vast majority of the incarcerated carry a diagnosis of mental illness, the team’s ...

Connecticut policy makers and advocates visited Norway prisons in November 2022 to learn about the country’s rehabilitation system for incarcerated individuals with the goal of bringing practices back ...

STAVANGER, Norway — Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, launched his second attempt at suing the state on Monday, ...

In Norway, a person-centered prison policy governs from Day One of a sentence. The premise? People in prison are fellow citizens who remain part of society even while incarcerated. Norwegian prisons ...

Inside Halden Fengsel, a high-security prison in Norway, inmates choose their own clothing. Knockoff track suits from designer brands such as Karl Lagerfeld are favored. They buy fresh produce from ...