Criminal justice advocates say Minnesota officials are moving too slow in implementing the Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act to release people from prison earlier.

He was serving a 14-year prison sentence for a voluntary manslaughter conviction when the deadly attack occurred.

Some people selflessly use the cards they’ve been dealt in life to make the game easier for the person next to them. For Channae Haller, her mission to help the downtrodden came to her while she was ...

An inmate at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano died after he was found in his cell with serious injuries Friday morning, ...

A former prison guard was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison on Thursday for sexually abusing three inmates at the ...

Brian Koehn, a Marine Corps veteran and former warden, is leading a movement to transform the criminal justice system with ...

Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...

Guards doing their routine rounds of the building found Turner, 31, hanging from a part of his cell around 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, said Cheryl Bolton, a prison spokeswoman.

The Kern Valley State Prison is looking into the death of an inmate as a possible homicide on Friday.Staff members observed ...

Two young men who were housed at the Green Hill School juvenile detention center in Chehalis claim they were left to urinate in plastic receptacles in their cells amid overcrowding. The petitioners' ...

Kristi Lettie Tyler, 35, was caught with eight grams of the drug in her jacket, charges allege ...