Prison Reform

"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

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

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

"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

Court records and data from the state shows New Jersey is likely undercounting its population of wrongly convicted inmates

The changes - replacing the term with "incarcerated person" - signed into law Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul are intended to reduce the stigma of being in jail