Michaela Burriss is the policy director for the Ohio Justice & Policy Center. She was the youngest woman ever elected to Upper Arlington City Council, where she served from 2020-2024. The federal ...

New questions are being raised in the Menendez brothers' fight to be released from prison. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered the district attorney to explain why exculpatory evidence, ...

HARTSVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A new Tennessee law will require private prisons with high death rates to reduce their inmate population, a measure that gained unanimous support from lawmakers after a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — An inmate has died after a fight inside a cell at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center on Monday, Nov. 24, according to Iberville Parish Sheriff Brett Stassi. He ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Twenty-six people face charges for crimes at the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. Two of those people are accused of providing the illegal drugs that led to inmate deaths, ...

Despite finally opening a long-planned alternative to its old isolation cells this year, Oregon’s largest youth prison continues to use its 1950s-era Intervention Unit nicknamed the “dungeon” and has ...

ROMULUS, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — In a span of four days, guards at a Seneca County prison have dealt with five separate incidents of unrest among prisoners, according to a statement from the guards’ union. A ...