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State committee failed to agree Friday on whether Colorado’s corrections agency violated victims’ rights by refusing to reveal where the Aurora theater shooter is serving his sentence

“No one should be assaulted in a prison. Correctional officers should not be assaulted. ... It speaks to a lack of control and a lack of oversight.”

The legislation comes in the wake of last year’s report on the Department of Justice’s investigation into the state’s prisons

For the entire legislative session, there have been more people incarcerated at the state’s jails than there are beds in those jails

More states have moved transgender women to women’s prisons on a case-by-case basis

The financial terms will be disclosed when the deals are final, which the Ivey administration expects to be late this year

The assistant director of Cook County Jail testified that more than 175 tiers in the facility have transitioned to single-cell housing to help stem the spread of COVID-19

Lawyers are trying to persuade a judge to permanently undo a state law that requires felons to first settle their financial debts before regaining the right to vote

Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, Virginia is second only to Texas in number of executions, at 113

A state appeals court took the unprecedented step of ordering at least half of the prison’s 2,900 inmates transferred or released