PIERRE — For the past five years, conversations about prisons and how to manage them have played out as one tumultuous bout ...

There are a handful of states that actually house incarcerated military veterans together. The prison system in Washington state is one of them. Corrections officials say it's an easier way to manage ...

A Christianity-focused program with a mission of reducing the return of inmates at one Arkansas prison will close next month after a decade of operation because of its difficulty in raising funds from ...

No doubt, prison reform advocates would love to see it. But so far, PolitiFact could find no sign of the prison-to-work program that candidate Barack Obama touted in the campaign. There's nothing like ...

Maria Montalvo speaks with emotion, her eyes shining as she recounts her reading experiences. She says she especially enjoys books by Isabel Allende, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Erika L. Sánchez ...

This year, 161 artists, all of whom are incarcerated, submitted more than 600 pieces for the annual exhibition of the Prison ...

Wayne State University's new Prison Education Program launches this fall at the Macomb Correctional Facility, making the Detroit university the newest member of the Michigan Consortium for Higher ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A prison seminary program is one of the first priorities for the new head of South Dakota’s state ...

Hundreds of inmates build license plates, furniture and print materials for government agencies inside the Utah State Prison while gaining job skills aimed at r ...