A barred door secures access to the living quarters of the building complex at Butzow prison in Germany. — JENS BUTTNER/dpa A 75-year-old man was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison in the ...

A Danville man is accused of being one of the people leading a plot to violently attack a UFC fight on the White House lawn. Tycen Proper, 19, faces multiple charges in U.S. District Court in Columbus ...

A government directive urging prisons to expand farming and livestock production to boost revenue could face significant challenges following revelations that vast tracts of prison land have been ...

Taycheedah Correctional Institution, seen on Aug. 29, 2024, in Fond du Lac, Wis., is about 60% over capacity as of the most recent Department of Corrections prison population report. A Wisconsin Watch ...

Donald Trump on Sunday shared a meme portraying several former Obama administration and intelligence officials in orange prison jumpsuits, continuing his repeated public rhetoric about prosecuting or ...

For the third year in a row, Oklahoma’s prison population rose. The increase is largely due to tougher sentencing laws passed by the state legislature to crack down on violent crime. From 2024 to 2025 ...

Wisconsin inmates are getting older, and that’s costing the state millions. A report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum shows the incarceration rate among people 60 and older increased by six times from ...

DENVER, Colorado — The Colorado State Assembly passed two bills last week aimed at addressing the state's near capacity prison system, which held roughly 18,000 inmates in January with only a 3% ...

Three months after the legislative Joint Budget Committee approved emergency funding for nearly 1,000 more beds in Colorado's prisons, the system is already near capacity again. Gov. Jared Polis asked ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin's older prison population is growing. That's according to a new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum. People ages 60 and older make up a minority of those arrested or ...

Wisconsin's prison population is growing steadily older, which is likely to further exacerbate the state's corrections spending in the coming years, according to a new report by the Wisconsin Policy ...