Today's guest is C.J. Ciaramella, a Reason reporter whose new cover story traces 250 years of American efforts to build a more humane prison system and the recurring failures that followed. Nick ...

The HALT Act took effect in 2022 and has been a point of contention between corrections officers and lawmakers ever since.

America’s federal prisons are decaying and overcrowded, contributing to violence among inmates and undermining opportunities for rehabilitation. But thanks to an infusion of federal cash authorized by ...

The First Step Act represented one of the most significant federal prison reform efforts in decades. Passed with bipartisan support in 2018, the law was intended to reduce recidivism, expand ...

Prison Guard Murder Conviction Highlights Need for Large-Scale Reform In response to the Oct. 20 verdict finding a state corrections officer guilty of murder and other related incidents, trial ...

The Department of Justice announced a new Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The announcement of Josh Smith to head the agency will be first as he is the only director to also have a felony ...

If your city hosts a prison or detention facility that’s outside of its control, it’s natural to wonder what local policy can do to improve conditions. But the truth, abolitionists argue, is that ...

President-elect Donald Trump and nominees for his upcoming administration often discuss cutting spending to reduce the debt. Some of the targets are familiar, but one that is never mentioned is the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Two months after a documentary took viewers inside of Alabama’s maximum-security facilities, called ‘The Alabama Solution,’ prison reform advocates are calling for an ADOC ...

For those of us who are more interested in policy than politics, it's frustrating to try a rational discussion about any issue once it's caught up in a partisan maelstrom. Few matters are more given ...