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 ...

Prison officials paint a very different ... according to a report by the Florida Phoenix. The transition to the DOC from the state’s Department of Management Services was prompted by a 2022 ...

Josh Shapiro’s administration recommended the closure of Rockview state prison, a 110-year-old facility that employs hundreds. It appears Shapiro’s administration began notifying stakeholders ...

The yellow glare from prison floodlights obscures the camera’s view as it bobs along, following a state prison guard as he jogs toward a scrum of fellow officers grappling with an inmate along a ...

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A big rally Saturday outside Vermont’s only women’s prison. State officials are looking to build a new facility but some believe prison’s are not the answer.

The Department of Corrections also announced the closure of two state-run Community Corrections Centers: Wernersville CCC in Berks County and Progress CCC in Waynesburg, Greene County. Officials ...

“Ninety-eight percent of them exit prison, and has we have to do something to freshen things up, make these individuals into much better citizens,” said state Sen. Glenn Wakai, the vice chair ...

An inmate at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center near Otay Mesa allegedly attacked an officer with an “improvised weapon” on Sunday evening, state corrections officials said. Nelson Barrera ...

One of the world’s biggest prisons, with a 40,000 capacity (equivalent to almost half the UK’s current prison population), CECOT was built two years ago. It now houses many thousands of the ...

The execution is scheduled at 6 p.m. Thursday at Florida State Prison. Murders of Southwest Florida couple, child survives Ford worked with Greg Malnory at the sod farm and made plans to go ...