Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house immigrants ...

State correctional officials said an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison from Monterey County died Monday in an apparent homicide.

Common Sense Media, which advocates for online protections for children and teens, released a new report on AI usage and attitudes among both kids ages 12-17 and parents.

Deputies at the Martin County Sheriff's Office shared photos of damaged handcuffs after an inmate who was experiencing mental ...

Lotts was sentenced in Missouri's St. Francois County Circuit Court in 2002 to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder in his stepbrother's stabbing death. It made no difference that at ...

In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

Communities were left reeling from attacks that unfolded less than two hours apart at a Michigan synagogue and Virginia ...

OHSU leaders visit Columbia Memorial Hospital Oregon Health & Science University leadership visited Columbia Memorial Hospital on Feb. 27 to discuss the strategic relationship between the two ...

ROTC students subdued and killed a gunman who yelled “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire Thursday in an Old Dominion University classroom, killing one and wounding two, according to the FBI, which said ...

The Jefferson County Community & Senior Center is making strides to provide better food for its regular meals and those who ...

Deaths in the custody of county jails should be investigated by an independent agency, not the sheriff who runs the jail, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said. "I think it would eliminate any, you know, concern ...