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PIERRE — Lawmakers advanced a bill that would appropriate the last round of one-time funding needed to pay for a new men's prison. The House State Affairs Committee on Wednesday voted 12-1 to forward ...

Dorothy Gaines knows firsthand the burdens prison can put on a family. She was in federal prison for seven years with three children at home. "My oldest daughter was 18," she says. "She had to come ...

I couldn’t help but notice the bulging irony in the new governor’s maiden budget proposal: prisons over classrooms. Gov. Doug Ducey, the Republican who came out of the private sector to manage public ...

A new study highlights the high price of incarceration, and says the annual total cost to families of Americans behind bars is nearly $350 billion. The study from FWD.us says one in two American ...

US President George W. Bush speaks prior to signing the Second Chance Act of 2007 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House in Washington, DC, on April 9, 2008. The Second ...

The Luzerne County prison expects to significantly reduce its cost to house inmates in coming years thanks to a change in state law that makes it more difficult for state-sentenced inmates to get ...

The Lackawanna County Prison successfully slashed overtime costs in the first half of the year, with 2025 overtime down by more than 50% through the pay period ending July 1 compared to the same point ...