Among the second chances offered in U.S. prisons is the first in-person bachelor’s program inside a maximum security yard.

Two barracks used to house German prisoners of war are still being stored on property owned by the City of Tempe.

A bill upping the amount the state can borrow to build a second 4,000-bed prison was approved by the Alabama Senate.

An incarcerated person was injured in a fight on Tuesday at the Folsom State Prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.A fight broke out at 8:41 a.m. among several ...

Despite promises to improve the system, problems within prisons keep mounting. Critics say the Dominican Republic continues ...

A NEW STATE LAW requires California to maintain oversight of all publications banned in state prisons. The state’s Office of ...

LOS ANGELES — Six women and the California Coalition of Women Prisoners have filed suit in Los Angeles against the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a prison gynecologist ...

CDCR sent KCRA 3 News a statement: A Female Community Reentry Program (FCRP) participant is not paroled, but rather is transferred to a supervised facility to continue serving their prison sentence.

Left to right: Luis Torres, Jose Gonzalez and Richard Wilson (CDCR) Gonzalez, 38, was transferred to the prison in 2008, where he was serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole for ...

CDCR said Gomeztagle's cellmate, 34-year-old Kevin Langston, was removed and placed in restricted housing pending an investigation. Langston was serving a four-year prison sentence for first ...