By JOHN ELIGON A Manhattan judge ruled on Thursday that a man who had spent 18 years in prison for murder was innocent of the crime, sending a cathartic jolt through a courtroom packed with his friends and family members. The prisoner, Ferna...

By Matthew Spolar and James Osborne The Philadelphia Inquirer A New Jersey company, watching closely as officials consider closing the Camden County jail and privatizing corrections services, has filed an application to build a facility in centr...

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet Posted on October 26, 2009, Printed on October 27, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/143499/ The tragic unraveling of the case against Cameron Todd Willingham -- the Texas man executed in 2004 for killing his own dau...

Local Inmate electrocuted at Huntsville prisonTuesday, October 20, 2009 | 4:40 PM Todd Hughes, 39, was working with an inmate maintenance crew on a broken water line when he was electrocuted, apparently by an adjacent electrical line HUNTSVILLE, T...

TEXAS-TDCJ Prison volunteer banned after admitting improper relationships with ex-cons By Mike Ward AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF The founder of the nationally acclaimed Prison Entrepreneurship Program has abruptly resigned after she was banned from...

Written by John Leland for the New York Times, October 17, 2009. COXSACKIE, N.Y. — Allen Jacobs lived hard for his 50 years, and when his liver finally shut down he faced the kind of death he did not want. On a recent afternoon Mr. Jacobs lay in...

Written by John Leland for the New York Times, October 17, 2009. COXSACKIE, N.Y. — Allen Jacobs lived hard for his 50 years, and when his liver finally shut down he faced the kind of death he did not want. On a recent afternoon Mr. Jacobs lay in...

Carrie Johnson | Washington Post | Friday, October 16, 2009 The Senate's second-ranking Democrat introduced a bill Thursday that would eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack and powdered cocaine, an issue that has frustrated judges, ci...

New actions and updates: Free Jailed Falsely :) Help Mr. Leonard Peltier get the parole he, and humanity, truly deserves, advocate and evoke :) Leonard has carried a constant burden for all of humanity, for over 34 years straight, graciously, cour...

Female inmates say 2 Okla. governor's mansion workers raped them; prosecutors investigating TIM TALLEY AP News Oct 12, 2009 18:12 EST Prosecutors are investigating claims that the former head chef and chief groundskeeper at the Oklahoma governo...

The Senate on Monday passed the Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009 (S.251), which allows states to petition the Federal Communications Commission for the authority to "jam" - or block the use of cell phones from prison. Under current law, t...