Prisoner Treatment

The school shooter asked for a chance at life outside a prison cell, apologizing to the family of the 6-year-old he killed

Across the U.S., around 7% of prisoners were in restrictive housing in state and federal prisons. In Kansas, that figure was 10.5%, while in Missouri, it was 11.9%

Holmes had originally been ordered to begin her prison sentence on April 27, but won a reprieve that gave her more time with her children

Joran van der Sloot, the suspect in the teen's disappearance, will be extradited to the U.S. to face charges he extorted thousands from Holloway’s mother

Girls Scouts Beyond Bars is a unique program in dozens of women’s prisons, jails and juvenile-detention centers across the country

The man suspected in the 2005 disappearance of the Ala. teen in Aruba is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence in Peru for a 2010 murder

Potter was released from the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee and will be on supervised release until December

The injunction prohibited inmates from being chained to a front bench for more than four hours and required that the center be kept sanitary

During the first year when the proposition was in effect, the proportion of people who reentered their communities successfully increased to 55.4%

The HOME Act would apply to non-citizens who fall under certain categories, including people who are sick and dying and some people who received convictions as youth

The Fulton County sheriff said the three members of his executive team had more than 65 years of collective experience in law enforcement and running a jail

The announcement came after the family of Lashawn Thompson, 35, who was found covered in bed bugs after he died inside the jail last year, called for an investigation

Holmes lost battle to delay her incarceration when judge ruled she must surrender to serve her 11-year sentence

One inmate's father said the hunger strike was "all about being treated like a human"

The details came to light after a public health emergency order was issued for the center earlier this week