Erik and Lyle Menendez were denied parole by a California board this week after decades in prison for killing their parents ...

Women Behind Bars Are Often Survivors of Abuse. A Series of New Laws Aim to Reduce Their Sentences CHICAGO (AP) — Advocates for domestic violence survivors in Illinois celebrated earlier this ...

The number of Americans in prison jumped over the past few decades amid the tough-on-crime policies of the "war on drugs" era. Current and former prisoners accounted for 5.8% of adult US men in ...

But female prison and jail populations are rebounding to pre-pandemic levels. “We are seeing more and more families separated,” said Alexis Mansfield, Reunification Ride coordinator for the ...

But before that, I spent 10 Christmases behind bars. The first was awful. It was painful to wake up alone, unable to embrace my son and exchange love and gifts with him.

Lynn Novick's 'College Behind Bars,' four-hour PBS documentary about the Bard Prison Initiative and the impact of educational programs as part of prison reform, is provocative and inspiring.

"College Behind Bars," A new PBS documentary, looks at the effort to bring higher education and Pell Grants back to inmates in prisons.

The 36-page report, “Nation Behind Bars: A Human Rights Solution,” notes that laws requiring penalties that are far longer than necessary to meet the purposes of punishment have given the ...

In June, the Obama administration announced a pilot project that will enroll 12,000 prisoners in US colleges through the use of Pell grants. But much more is needed, advocates of prison reform say.