Although underused by prison systems, social support interventions have generally been found to improve recidivism and prison misconduct outcomes. Prison visitation tends to be more effective in ...

HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS (1/27/16) -- A study funded by the National Science Foundation will explore if prison visitation can help reduce recidivism rates and whether there are gender, racial, and ethnic ...

Defendant pods at the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center have open air rec areas and plenty of daylight (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News). DENVER (CN) — The Colorado House Judiciary Committee on ...

Tearful, angry and resentful family members of Florida inmates pleaded Thursday with state corrections officials to abandon proposed changes to visitation rules that could cut in half the amount of ...

Can the tech industry be recruited to help end mass incarceration? On Friday at SXSW Interactive, part of Austin’s nine-day SXSW music, film and technology conference, a panel of app developers and ...

WATSONVILLE >> When Gov. Jerry Brown responded to crowding in California’s prisons by signing AB109 in 2011, he transferred 47 percent of the state’s correctional workload on to counties by allowing ...

When the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 was introduced in the United States Congress last year, Republican and Democratic senators backed the ambitious bill. Experts complimented its ...

Glenn E. Martin is the founder and president of JustLeadershipUSA. He is on Twitter. Updated January 22, 2015, 5:59 PM The U.S. prison system has an abysmal failure rate. Mass incarceration and ...

It’s just a draft, but a plan in the works at the Florida Department of Corrections could scale back visitation from every weekend and select holidays, to every other weekend. While department says ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) announced that, as of this month, the cost of video visitation has now reduced from 15 cents per minute to 12 cents per minute.

Assisting Families of Inmates (AFOI), a non-profit organization focused on supporting families and children impacted by the incarceration of a loved one, has announced that the cost of video ...

HARRISBURG, PA — The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) reached a milestone in 2024, reporting the highest number ...