The announcement opens up a 3-month public comment period, including public hearings, before a final decision is made. Gov.

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration says it's recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp ...

Rockview state prison is slated for closure under a plan unveiled Monday by Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration, a proposal that would save the state tens of millions of dollars but also have untold ...

A newly unsealed federal indictment accuses dozens of people, many of them in prison, of participating in an extensive drug ...

An inmate died on Tuesday at the Telfair State Prison, according to a news release from the Georgia Department of Corrections ...

They say Deandre Moody was serving 20 years for armed robbery out of Columbia County with a maximum release date of June 2028 ...

HELENA - Two of the dormitories at Telfair State Prison in south Georgia were on lockdown after a large fight Monday night. Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Gwendolyn Hogan said that ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has resigned from her position, while a Biden-era executive order that sought to phase out the use of private prisons has been repealed amid ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The state prison system in South Dakota is seeing its share of violence. There are currently more than a hundred court cases involving prison inmates in the hands of ...

On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump reversed former President Joe Biden’s executive order on private prisons. Biden’s order had barred contracts between the Department of Justice ...