Based on an average of 50,000 awaiting trial inmates being fed for 60 days at the new rate, the total expenditure on feeding amounts to over N3.3bn. Recently, the acting Controller-General of the ...

But if the state doesn’t know a release is coming, there’s no notification. Deputy Secretary of Public Safety and Corrections Derek Ellis says when a release is imminent they notify the victim as soon ...

For the last five years, Isaac Sork has been serving time at the New Mexico State Penitentiary. While Sork was in, he joined a culinary re-entry program. The program is an eight-week course that ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the ...

One woman was tutoring other former inmates in a post-prison program, helping them get better grades when a staff member ...

The deal, put forward at a Bureau County Board meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 14, would have sent up to 50 of Cook County's inmates ...

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

Instead, they say he was let out a day early, at midnight, without notification. It's unknown if the release date resulted from a miscommunication with the family or if Badillo was released early.

The study says the lack of effective reentry programs is one reason so many inmates get in trouble again ... shows that in roughly the last year 60% of men serving sentences on the mainland ...

The Tigers placed Gipson-Long (elbow/hip) on the 60-day injured list Saturday, Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press reports. Gipson-Long underwent Tommy John surgery in April followed by another ...

Meteorologist Jill Gilardi said Wednesday would be a cooler day. Here's her 7:20 a.m. forecast. Nicole Nalepa, Tracey McCain, Jill Gilardi, and Caitlin Francis have the news, weather, and traffic ...