Prison Reform

Colette Peters wants to change hiring practices to find candidates who want to "change hearts and minds"

Investigation cited a failure to release information, as required by law, about incriminating statements gathered by informants to lawyers for the accused

As part of the jail's focus on preventing recidivism, researchers are examining racial inequities in jail policies, practices and culture

"Unethical" medical experiments were performed on mostly Black inmates at its Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s through the 1970s

Alex Friedmann was convicted of hiding guns, ammunition, handcuff keys and hacksaw blades inside the walls of Nashville's new jail while it was being built

Alex Friedmann claimed he was being punished for his years of advocacy on behalf of prisoners prior to his arrest

Colette Peters cautioned that it'll take time to turn around the Justice Department’s largest component, with 122 facilities, 159,000 inmates and a budget of more than $8 billion

Gov. approved measures to seal criminal records and free dying inmates but denied bids to restrict solitary confinement and boost inmates' wages

"AB 2632 establishes standards that are overly broad and exclusions that could risk the safety of both the staff and incarcerated population within these facilities," he said

The Federal Prison Oversight Act would require the Justice Department to create a prisons ombudsman to field complaints about prison conditions

The organization Both Sides of the Wall called for the strike Mon. morning to address reforms to Alabama’s sentencing and parole laws

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels has called on Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers to halt all paroles in the state