Search Results

California’s prison system was built to house 80,000 inmates and now holds almost twice that number

Jeffrey Beard testified four years ago that California’s prisons were dangerously overcrowded

10 hostages were killed in law enforcement’s attempt to regain control of the facility

“The building is deteriorating by the day,” Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat said. “I’ve been sounding this alarm for 365 days if not longer.”

Not only does the Mendocino County Jail garden provide a significant amount of produce for the jail’s kitchen, it offers inexpensive inmate rehabilitation therapy

Inmate Ron Kelly considers the program a life saver

A proposed change in the way prison transfers and parole revocation hearings are processed is one of a series of recommendations

Staff’s negative perceptions of their agency – whether founded or not – must be addressed or these negative perceptions will breed division and discord

Michael DiVincino was able to rehabilitate himself from within the prison system while serving as “sort of an unofficial mentor” to many younger inmates

Although rehabilitating those serving time behind bars is a chief mission for state departments of correction, recent research reveals a potential stumbling block in achieving this goal