Inside Philadelphia prisons, the most anticipated visitor is a dog. Therapy dog programs are now built into prison life; they help staff manage tension and give inmates rare moments of emotional reset ...

PIERRE — For the past five years, conversations about prisons and how to manage them have played out as one tumultuous bout ...

Legislation that is aimed at expanding prison-based education and job-training programs proven to reduce crime has been filed by Rep. Jennifer Decker, R-Waddy. House Bill 5, given the low number […] ...

There are a handful of states that actually house incarcerated military veterans together. The prison system in Washington state is one of them. Corrections officials say it's an easier way to manage ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A prison seminary program is one of the first priorities for the new head of South Dakota’s state ...

In the Wisconsin prison system, incarcerated mothers still lack a program that would allow physical custody of their children ...

This year, 161 artists, all of whom are incarcerated, submitted more than 600 pieces for the annual exhibition of the Prison Arts Program.

AmplifiedAg's vertical farms, grown in recycled shipping containers, grow lettuce in water instead of soil. Similar modules will be placed at Camille Graham women's prison later this year.

A Christianity-focused program with a mission of reducing the return of inmates at one Arkansas prison will close next month after a decade of operation because of its difficulty in raising funds from ...

Wayne State University's new Prison Education Program launches this fall at the Macomb Correctional Facility, making the Detroit university the newest member of the Michigan Consortium for Higher ...