Richardson started the pen pal program after recognizing a need for support among incarcerated women. She quickly found ...

More than two dozen incarcerated men were invited to participate in the father-daughter dance based on good behavior.

Incarcerated trainers in the Helping PAWS program at Logan Correctional Center raise puppies that will later work as mobility ...

A federal judge on Monday reduced a prison sentence to probation for a former Tennessee lawmaker whose testimony helped ...

In Eating Behind Bars, author Leslie Soble details how food is used to further punish incarcerated people in the US ...

NOBTS offers bachelor’s degrees in five prison locations including two for women. At Angola, we also offer master’s degrees.

A dentist convicted of being drunk at Anamosa State Penitentiary, where he was treating prisoners, gets his license back ...

Recidivism reveals a gap between punishment and rehabilitation. Psychology explains why incarceration alone rarely transforms ...

From suicide spikes to solidarity, Mansa Musa explains what the holidays are really like inside U.S. prisons—and how people ...

Most of the jobs available to Wisconsin prisoners are paid not in dollars, but cents. Minimum wage laws don’t apply behind bars, so some people scrub toilets for less than a quarter an hour. But one ...

LANSING –The holiday season at the Department of Corrections is the time of the year when staff, inmates and the public get excited to see the newest edition of the Dogs of the MDOC Calendar. “It ...