Understaffing and overcrowding in prisons are causing unsafe conditions, low retention rates, and a higher suicide rate among ...

Following the 95th General Assembly, Governor Sanders discusses the Arkansas legislative session, major wins in education, the prison system, and more.

Leavenworth’s lawsuit highlights major scandals at the prison, including a 129-page report from the U.S. Department of ...

Haggard, who died in 2016, spoke to Fresh Air in 1995 about his love of trains. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car. Now that coach is part of the Virginia Scenic Railway.

Massachusetts’ life without parole sentences could be a thing of the past if a prison reform bill were to pass.

Pope Francis reshaped the church’s financial structures, but internal resistance and ailing revenues mean the new pope will ...

often focused on museums and cultural organizations, natural resources and the environment, health and fitness, community ...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard shared that she did not pass along a rare chromosomal condition to her baby daughter Aurora Raina Urker, ...

Maryland Gov. Moore signed nearly 150 bills into law​ Tuesday, including several that focus on criminal justice reform and improving public safety.

Lee Perlman, PhD ’89, and MIT’s Educational JusticeInstitute go behind bars to change the course of lives—and broaden the ...

The controversial Second Look Act and legislation pushing against the Trump administration's mass firing of federal workers are among the bills signed by Gov. Wes Moore.