The writers urge Washington lawmakers to pass the Judicial Discretion Act, allowing judges to modify some prison sentences.

Correctional officers’ strikes are erupting across New York State, with protestors calling for better working conditions. The ...

Edna Larrabee and Beulah Brunelle wouldn’t stay behind bars and were among the state’s most elusive prisoners.

The outcome of the appeal, brought by GEO Group, could set important legal precedent on wages for detainees who work in ...

Correction officers at prisons across the state are striking again on Tuesday. The staff are protesting working conditions ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted in 1971, aimed to study the effects of power and authority but quickly spiraled ...

A policy at Washington state agencies allowed Microsoft Teams messages between staffers to be automatically deleted after seven days.

One month after his inauguration, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson held his second press conference on Thursday to discuss the ...

Washington state has tried to impose standards on a migrant detention center in Tacoma. Private prison company GEO Group says ...

On the one hand, the deal freed three innocent Israeli men from a 16-month nightmare, further torment and possibly death. The ...

A court in India’s western Goa state has sentenced a 31-year-old man to life in prison for raping and murdering an Irish ...

Under the Illinois public records law, AP obtained a list of 406 inmates housed at Stateville as of August 2024 and matched each with the prison to which they’d been transferred, noting its security ...