Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Men exercise in the maximum security yard of the Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kan. The prison population in Kansas ...

Despite what you may have heard from Donald Trump, crime rates in the U.S. have declined steadily since the mid-1990s, and are currently at their lowest levels in more than four decades. And yet, the ...

State leaders hoping to trim budgets by reducing prison populations are in for some disappointment. Proponents of decarceration often tout potential savings, but despite a 24 percent drop in state ...

West Virginia’s prison population has ballooned over the past decade and now, between 30% and 35% of people incarcerated are ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Republican state Sen. Kevin Jensen of the Canton area has a specific number in mind. “If we can get the recidivism down to about 20%, that would open up about 200 beds a ...

Prisons are not social dustbins, yet many societies continue to treat them as such. Prisons have drifted away from the ...