"A prison, like a jail, is a necessary government function, and it must be located somewhere," a state circuit judge ruled.

"There's so many other steps that have to come after this for some action to really ... make us believe that it's true," a former prisoner said.

South Dakota’s four-year process to address the state’s correctional needs evolved into a plan to build a new men’s prison on 160 acres of farmland in Lincoln County ...

The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice fired Lexington facility’s top managers two years after complaints from female ...

The attacks occurred years earlier when Bennie Thorpe worked at a state women’s prison, his accusers said. Now he runs a ...

Research shows higher education is effective at preventing people from re-offending. Legislation could give more people inside access to college classes.

Joe Asperger of Plante Moran Realpoint, the project manager, said the $229-million endevour remains within budget and on ...

The plan would complete a Dane County youth facility, convert Lincoln Hills from juveniles to adults and renovate Waupun’s ...

The governor's proposal, in his comprehensive corrections reform plan, to turn Waupun Correctional, now a maximum security facility into a state-of-the-art, medium-security institution that would be ...

Tony Evers' nearly $500 million plan to overhaul the state's prisons would tear down a 19th Century Green Bay prison and ...

CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been charged with murder in a deadly New Year’s Day stabbing in Little Village. Freddy Diaz, 44, ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.