Aug. 23--Luzerne County's former budget/finance director Donna Magni is questioning a $1,245 county prison payment to an Allentown abortion clinic and suggested her inquiry into the matter prompted ...

North Carolina spends millions of taxpayer dollars to keep inmates in jail. Now there is a plan to make prisoners pay for their crimes with more than just time. Representative Steve Woodof Guilford ...

PHOENIX - A federal appeals court ruled Monday that there's nothing illegal about the state's setting aside money from an inmate's wages so he'll have it when he's released. The fact that the prisoner ...

One of the most frequent complaints of jail and prison inmates, their families and advocates is that telephone companies overcharge them for making phone calls to their loved ones. On Wednesday, the ...

Most people make payments to live in their home or apartment. Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell thinks inmates should have to do the same. Bizzell wants to enforce an old state law that says ...