“This is Room 6, inmate number 000. My head has been hurting since yesterday. Could you check my blood pressure?” “…Please wait.” At 10 a.m. on the 29th of last month, the first floor of the female ...

TUTWILER, MISSISSIPPI — The cotton is just beginning to bloom. It’s late August in the Mississippi Delta, an alluvial plain formed by soil deposited from the Missouri, Ohio and Mississippi rivers over ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - Nebraska has the country’s most or second most overcrowded prison system, depending on who you ask. Inspector General of the Nebraska Correctional System Doug ...

Frustrated Colorado lawmakers gave a “huge slap on the wrist” to the state’s correctional system and its leaders Wednesday, rejecting more than $20 million in funding requests. They also vented their ...