Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Content warning: Discussions of violence, sexual assault, and murder. This past year, I've been asking former inmates and people ...

It’s been a year since Imhotep Muhammad returned home from Dauphin County Prison after a jury acquitted him of the most serious charges that had him locked up for 26 months. The scars from that time, ...

Nicholas Jacobson had just been accused of murder when a raging infection nearly killed him. Left untreated for two weeks in a California jail, sepsis drove him into a coma as his organs started to ...

If new start-ups like Jail Education Solutions can convince prison officials to abandon their symbiotic relationships with companies like Securus and Global Tel*Link — or at least force those ...

The Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls. The 2-1 vote in late October reverses ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A phone inside the New Orleans jail. A phone inside the New Orleans jail. (Photo by Minh Ha/Verite News) The Federal ...

An inmate makes a phone call from the female dorms of the Ada County Jail. The Federal Communications Commission recently voted to dramatically increase the cost of prison and jail calls. Sarah A.

Mellon Foundation to help other libraries develop similar services, according to the San Francisco Public Library. A report ...

Lieutenant Thomas Conrad was standing in a control room in Nashville’s new central jail when he noticed something off with one of the key rings hanging on the wall. It was midday on December 30, 2019, ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections has tracked down 17 people it released from prison and put them back behind bars in a surprising roundup that follows confusion over a recent court ruling. The ...