Georgia’s prison system sees a spike in violent deaths and severe staffing shortages, prompting urgent calls for reform and ...

GEORGIA, — An inmate at Macon State Prison died last week on February 14, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. Macon State Prison inmate Marquel Smith died on February 14. The official ...

Officers were directed to a white four door Mercedes and discovered a victim later identified as Barnes in the trunk of the vehicle wrapped in blood-stained bedding with multiple gunshot wounds to his ...

A federal judge has appointed a lead monitor with three decades of experience in corrections to oversee a consent decree ...

On Feb. 5, the Georgia Department of Corrections was notified that Jeremiah Shad Garnto, 35, may have been involved in conducting prison drops at multiple prisons across the state. Johnson County ...

The attacks occurred years earlier when Bennie Thorpe worked at a state women’s prison, his accusers said. Now he runs a prison where an inmate was fatally beaten by guards. By Jan Ransom After ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, S.D. (South Dakota News Watch) - South Dakota’s four-year process to address the state’s correctional needs evolved into a plan to build a new men’s prison on 160 acres of ...

Legislation in the Illinois statehouse could open up state financial aid to college students in prison. Charlotte West/Open Campus Share Jose Vidaurri was serving more than 20 years in prison when ...

The Brooks family filed a wrongful death lawsuit last month in federal court claiming state officials oversee a “dangerously broken” prison system that brutalizes inmates. Gov. Kathy Hochul ...

A 46-year-old man from Georgia is looking at three decades in prison after being convicted for his actions in raping a woman ...

But the prison's director affirms no prisoner there will ever step outside. Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Bukele had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S., including ...