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House Bill 186 passed the Senate by a 24-11 vote; it overwhelmingly passed the House earlier this month

New law will help ensure that phone rates are “reasonable” for families trying to stay in touch with an incarcerated loved one

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

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

“If I punch any one of you in your face and break your orbital, you’re not coming to work the next day. That’s our reality every single day,” a CO official said

If the bill passes as is, Florida would have “the most extreme death penalty statute in the country”

Last year, people in the Department of Corrections and their families paid $7.7 million to talk on the phone

Advocates say problems exists because of mistakes over eligibility and difficulties that detainees and prisoners face in registering or voting

Gov. Glenn Youngkin wants the law to require the Virginia Parole Board to notify local prosecutors before an inmate is paroled