Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The debate over what to do about the overcrowding at the Bexar County jail will once again be on the Bexar County Commissioners ...

Wanda Bertram, a spokesperson for the Prison Policy Initiative, which advocates for reducing mass incarceration nationwide, said people who are stuck behind bars waiting for access to programs but are ...

Queensland prison staff fear a human rights exemption for prisoners will make their jobs more dangerous.

The closure comes three months after the jail experienced an outbreak of the blood-sucking parasites during the summer.

Wake County Sheriff Willie Rowe has spoken with the county's police agencies about jail overcrowding but says he's not asking them to change their operations or the number of people they are arresting ...

A family is grieving after a man was beaten to death in a Nashville jail. An attorney for the man’s mother links his death to overcrowding in the city’s jail system. Even though correction officers ...

Former Arkansas lawmaker Jeremy Hutchinson, who served two years in prison on federal bribery and tax charges, presents the House and Senate Judiciary committees with suggestions to reduce prison ...