Nearly six dozen correctional officers tried to get convicted killer Brian Dorsey saved from being executed — praising his “exemplary behavior” as a “model prisoner.” Dorsey was killed with a ...

When people are found guilty of committing a crime, a judge will decide how they should be punished. Sometimes they are allowed to live in their own homes and they have to pay a fine or serve their ...

Professor Hadar Aviram of UC Hastings College of the Law will speak on the American prison system and the transformation of punishment as part of the continuing UC Santa Cruz and UC Hastings Social ...

I have read with great interest articles in recent issues of the Independent Record that describe Senate Bill 388, the juvenile probation bill, as an unnecessary bill that would dramatically alter the ...

Two men accused of running a scheme to get drugs and phones into Ohio prisons have learned their punishment. Cory Sutphin was sentenced to nearly five years in prison, and Charles Gibbs was sentenced ...

The state inspector general concluded that the disparities had worsened since a 2015 New York Times investigation found that Black prisoners faced more punishment than white ones. By Grace Ashford ...

Washington Department of Corrections officials have been using shoddy over-the-counter drug tests as grounds for harsh punishments that in some cases significantly delayed inmates’ release, a group of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD)- South Carolina is expected to move forward with its first execution in over a decade when Richard Moore is put to death on April 29. Moore has been on death row for more than ...

BUTNER, N.C. — A North Carolina federal prison supervisor has been convicted after investigators say he instructed a correctional officer to physically punish a man incarcerated at the institution by ...