California paid $20 million to cut prison costs. Where does it hope to save?

Instead of closing another prison, the Newsom administration is hoping to cut prison spending by reducing costs associated ...
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Federal judge moves to appoint Ohio corrections official to oversee Arizona prison healthcare

The federal judge who ordered the takeover of Arizona’s prison healthcare system earlier this year because of years of ...
KTVB

Idaho Department of Correction provides overview of growing prison population, dwindling resources

BOISE, Idaho — This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press. Idaho Department of Correction Director Bree Derrick came before the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Monday to discuss the ...

Colorado voted to end forced prison labor in 2018 – so why are incarcerated people in the state still working for less than $2 an hour?

The amendment eliminated the penal exception clause, which allowed the state to use forced labor in addition to incarceration as a punishment for crime. In 2022, the plaintiffs who brought a class ...
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After 14 years of oversight, the suit against Virginia's largest prison for women is dismissed

After 14 years of supervision, a court has ended a lawsuit against Virginia’s Department of Corrections. Women at the Fluvanna Correctional Center had sued, saying medical care there was so bad that ...