Under a new bill passed by the Washington State Senate, youth in juvenille detention centers would no longer be handed prison ...

A deeply partisan bill that aims to roll back harsh “prison riot” charges against juvenile offenders has now passed both chambers of the Washington State Legislature. The Senate approved House ...

Staff were being warned of notes and messages being passed between increasingly restless inmates of a planned protest in the prison chapel. The tip-offs were largely ignored and what followed sparked ...

Women make up less than 5% of California’s prison population, but that small portion faces “double punishment,” said Anne Irwin, the director of prison reform group Smart Justice California ...