A guard tower at the new Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison on Friday, Apr. 10, 2015. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette) ...

Yet challenges remain. Despite receiving more than $400 million annually under the First Step Act, the Bureau of Prisons has ...

Turning things over to outside companies would cause all sorts of problems at Iowa prisons, writes Thomas Hansen.

His comments come after Trump's top envoy, Steve Witkoff, said yesterday that he was pulling the U.S. team of negotiators out ...

States of all political stripes, including Oklahoma, North Dakota and Massachusetts, have sent officials to tour prisons in ...

The "Big Beautiful Bill," enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump, includes devastating funding ...

After decades of protest from activists, change is coming to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) health care system ...