Among efforts to combat overcrowding at the county jail, Faulkner County Sheriff's Office administrators are working to change the facility's inmate classification system so that some detainees can be ...

Alabama politicians pushed ahead a bill to reshape the state parole board on Wednesday, looking at ways to improve how Alabama decides who is fit for parole from the state’s overcrowded prisons. “If ...

Santa Clara County Sheriff Robert Jonsen and Assistant Sheriff David Sepulveda took local leaders on tour of the Elmwood Correctional Facility and the county’s main jail, respectively located in ...

The Arkansas Board of Corrections voted Thursday to tentatively approve a proposed $57 million contract with two architecture and engineering firms to design a 3,000-bed prison currently planned in ...

PHOENIX — There’s nothing wrong with the system used to classify the security risk of Arizona prison inmates, even if it did result in one prisoner being able to kill three fellow inmates at the ...

RIVERTON - The director of the state Department of Corrections says a judge was wrong to claim that the number of violent convicts at the minimum-security Wyoming Honor Farm has risen dramatically.