Eastern State Penitentiary, in Philadelphia, opened its doors in 1829. Often considered the world’s first true penitentiary, its hallmark six-spoked, wheel-shaped design radiates outward from a ...

Organizers gathered in downtown Rochester on Wednesday to urge lawmakers to pass parole reform. Formerly incarcerated ...

Decades of evidence proves that a functional parole system makes us all safer. Human beings don’t function well without hope, and the hope of parole incentivizes good behavior and reformation, ...

As a former New York state parole commissioner, I am not surprised to learn about the horrifying murder of Robert Brooks, whom corrections staffers at Marcy Correctional Facility beat to death, ...

The woman convicted of killing a Boulder cyclist could be released from prison to serve the remainder of her sentence in a ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One in every 31 U.S. adults is in the corrections system, which includes jail, prison, probation and supervision, more than double the rate of a quarter century ago, according ...

Fair and Timely Parole as well as Elder Parole have languished in the state Legislature, but momentum for the bills is ...

The Ohio House has voted to approve a comprehensive prison reform bill that features new mandatory minimum sentences for assaulting correctional officers.

A former correctional officer cadet, Julius Williams, pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle meth into Dooly State Prison ...