At a screening in Dallas, acclaimed filmmaker Lynn Novick previewed her upcoming PBS documentary series, "Crime and ...

Last December, on a bitterly cold afternoon, I stood inside the walled yard of Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary while I waited for a museum docent to start a tour. I stamped my feet and blew ...

Norway’s prisons look shockingly comfortable compared with American cells, but the numbers tell the real story. In Norway, far fewer former prisoners return to prison, while America’s system keeps ...

Behind the imposing stone walls of Eastern State Penitentiary — the Philadelphia prison that once held Al Capone — sits a small, unlikely sanctuary: a synagogue built by inmates, for inmates, nearly a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States has spent decades debating how to make prisons more effective, from sentencing reforms to budget hearings. Yet ...

Editor’s note: The next president is in for a rough welcome to the Oval Office given the list of immediate crises and slow-burning policy challenges, both foreign and domestic. What should Washington ...

America is asking prisons and jails to deliver better public safety outcomes at the exact moment they are least able to do it. And the data is flashing red. A recent 50-state analysis by Safe Inside, ...

Over the span of a single week at the end of March, a Michigan prisoner was found dead inside his cell in what authorities are investigating as a homicide, two inmates died inside New York City’s ...

A Massachusetts legislative commission co-chaired by former Rep. Nika Elugardo and Sen. Jamie Eldridge reached a sobering conclusion: structural racism exists inside the Commonwealth’s correctional ...

During the last five years, school and public library book bans have been on the rise. But prison censorship continues to ...