Efforts to expand and renew the Clark County Jail should generate strong public support. While proposed costs might cause sticker shock among taxpayers, the need is clearly justifiable.

Inmates can often be seen picking up trash along roads in Mississippi, but they could soon be working on the roads as well if ...

Nearly 15 years since the country's last firing squad death, an inmate in South Carolina elects to be shot to death.

Before tabling the purchase of the $203,000 scanner that would detect contraband inside inmates’ body cavities, commissioners listened to County Administrator Brian Smith’s explanation of ...

We’re following up on the Montana Department of Corrections efforts to relieve overcrowding at the state prison.We recently ...

The proposed passenger rail line stretching from Chicago to the West Coast was presented to Congress on Jan. 20, and Missoula ...

We need to hold multiple truths — that the detention of juveniles should be rare, and for those in the system, we need to ...

As New York correction officers continue their strike, state lawmakers remain split over prison staffing reforms and the ...