Aroostook County is now in a position to begin a comprehensive Needs Assessment to help determine the size, location and ...

An author of a new report hopes the release of national data sheds light on the disenfranchisement of incarcerated people.

The Vermont Women's Correctional Facility is planning to move its current South Burlington location to two sites in Essex.

In reality, voters face confounding rules that change from one state to the next ... In Washington, D.C., Maine and Vermont, ...

One South Carolina inmate was killed and three others injured in a Monday afternoon prison fight. Devin Javonne Wilson, 29, died Monday at the Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville after ...

According to the lawmakers, these proposals would require prisoners to work, allowing them to generate resources that would help reduce the State ... for inmates. Data provided by PUSC and PNR ...

ROMULUS, N.Y. — The New York State Correctional Officers ... of the head and placed him in a choke hold. Corrections officer say the two inmates continued to be combative and it took several ...

Many state prison inmates in Texas, including people on death ... People convicted of felonies in Maine, Vermont and Washington, D.C., never lose their voting rights, even while incarcerated ...

Many state prison inmates in Texas, including people on death row, are eligible to vote — and might not even know it. Under a little-known section of state elections law, felons who are actively ...

The state has removed all inmates from Chuckawalla Valley State Prison an is in the process of locking it up for good. The move is already being felt by local businesses and schools with many ...

Many state prison inmates in Texas, including people on death row ... People convicted of felonies in Maine, Vermont and Washington, D.C., never lose their voting rights, even while incarcerated, he ...