Yet challenges remain. Despite receiving more than $400 million annually under the First Step Act, the Bureau of Prisons has ...

The U.S. prison system is designed for men and is, thus, less responsive to the needs of women, and even less so for mothers.

Unfortunately, the package fails to reduce unnecessary incarceration or improve the deteriorating conditions in prisons and jails.

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Several U.S. states are looking to European-style prisons, which prioritize rehabilitation over punishment, to improve prison conditions in America, despite facing political and financial barriers.

The package combines nine reform bills filed this year after the fatal beatings of two incarcerated men at adjacent prisons in Oneida County. A total of 21 workers at Marcy and Mid-State ...

After losing his son in a private prison, Tim Leeper fought for reform, and Tennessee lawmakers listened. Now, private prisons with high death rates will face consequences.

A Tennessee businessman and prison reform advocate pardoned by President Donald Trump for federal drug convictions is now second in command of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Joshua J. Smith, 50 ...