Prisons

Additionally, correctional officers face a suicide rate that is 40% higher than the rest of the working-age population, and their average life expectancy is significantly lower at 59 years compared to the general population’s 75 years.

Justice-reform groups in Missouri are watching the progress of a $1 billion proposal to Congress to pay states to rethink and shrink their prison populations.

Top officials at the Illinois Department of Corrections on Friday laid out the agency’s plans to close and rebuild two state prisons that are in dire states of disrepair.

The weapon was a piece of metal sharpened to a point with brown fabric wrapped around the base as a handle.

The Prison Policy Initiative research found disparities in the criminal justice system have not changed in the past decade, despite debates about addressing mass incarceration

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker defended the number of dying and disabled prisoners released under a landmark law that went into effect early last year at a news conference Thursday.

After 30 years, Pell Grants are being reinstated to include people in federally approved prisons, to provide more educational opportunities.

The prison project in eastern Kentucky would require cutting more than one hundred acres of old-growth forest, worsening the flood risk in a region already prone to severe flooding.

Prisoner rights groups have complained about unsafe water. In recent months, the state has sent water violation notices to nearly a dozen prisons.

The state's Capital Development Board is currently conducting an assessment with the goal of identifying structural updates needed for facilities.