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Corporate influence-peddling is alive and well in the Trump brand of politics. Private prison titan The GEO Group handed over $1.4 million to President Donald Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc., just days ...

DENVER — A prison advocacy group is suing Jefferson County officials over claims the jail is censoring books and magazines sent to inmates in violation of the organization’s free speech and due ...

On August 2, 2024, Florida-­based Armor Health Management LLC petitioned the Miami-­Dade County Circuit Court to liquidate its assets to Enhanced Management Services (EMS), as part of a global ...

Located in the gently rolling hills of Southern Colorado, dotted with juniper, poplar and cedar trees, Florence is a quiet, small town that was once a prison town without a prison. At just over 5,000 ...

With the highest incarceration rate in the world – over six out of every 1,000 people – America has long known there is one thing that consistently reduces recidivism: education. A recent ...

Commissioners of Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County voted on September 19, 2024, to forgive $65,902,534.98 in debt owed by former detainees at the county lockup for unpaid fees they were charged during ...

The sale of Minnesota’s shuttered Prairie Correctional Facility to the federal government has left the small city of Appleton (1,300 residents) facing tax revenue loss, infrastructure strain, and ...

On January 3, 2024, California state prisoner and Aryan Brotherhood (AB) member Patrick “Big Pat” Brady, 53, pleaded guilty in federal court for the Northern District of California to murdering a ...

Drugs are ubiquitous behind prison walls, but screening of items sent to prisoners and random drug testing incentivizes the use of substances difficult to detect and easy to conceal. Synthetic ...

No executions have been carried out by the Tennessee Department of Corrections (DOC) since May 2019, while the state reviewed its three-drug lethal injection protocol. That review was completed on ...

The Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) took the extraordinary step of firing a prison warden on July 1, 2024. Warden Ralph Shropshire was walked off the job after just 16 months at Valdosta State ...