The state Department of Correction is lowering the minimum age requirement to become an officer from 21 to 19 in hopes of ...

Visitation at theEddie Warrior Correctional Center and theJess Dunn Correctional Center has been cancelled today, May ...

John Scippa, Gov. Kelly Ayotte's interim pick to lead the state's Department of Corrections won quick approval by the ...

In June 2025, the new album Bending the Bars — produced by the prison abolitionist group Community Hotline for Incarcerated ...

Being expelled or suspended multiple times and being sent to an alternative school for children with behavioral problems were ...

Nearly half of those fired during the illegal statewide correctional officers strike earlier this year have applied to ...

A Minot man has been sentenced to three years with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation after pleading guilty to ...

Pearl Fernandez was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in June 2018 for her involvement in the ...

A Michigan woman accused of setting her husband on fire then driving a van over his burning body was sentenced to life in ...

Michigan has experienced a significant increase in tornado activity this year, with 27 confirmed tornadoes by May 21, ...

Ex-convicts seeking to reenter Florida’s workforce will get a boost from bipartisan legislation Gov. Ron DeSantis just signed ...

The governor and DOCCS commissioner both maintain that the budget approves up to three prison closures, but the final number of facilities shut down may be less.