Tucked inside the State Correctional Institution at Chester is a 64-bed pilot unit with a big reputation. Little Scandinavia ...

Innovative programs make them safer while enhancing opportunities for success after release. Some states are showing the way.

If you’re serving hard time inside a California prison, you’ll often find yourself stuck in a cramped cell with a stranger. You hang a bedsheet to manufacture the semblance of privacy between bed and ...

Story by Maxine Bernstein, oregonlive.com • 27m Despite finally opening a long-planned alternative to its old isolation cells this year, Oregon’s largest youth prison continues to use its 1950s-era ...

The finance team for the new Lancaster County prison project is preparing to present to county commissioners a set of options for financing the prison’s construction, which could cost nearly ...

Pennsylvania has a prison problem, and it’s not the one most people think. Yes, like most states and like the federal government, the Keystone State has a lot of people behind bars. The most recent ...