West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency, and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...

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The unit, opened in 2022, was created through a partnership between the state corrections department, Drexel University and ...

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Intended to curb prison violence with promises of early release, the law is turning out as unbalanced as critics feared, with ...

It came as a response by lawmakers to a horrific crime. Now, thousands of people imprisoned since 2019 risk more time behind ...

For five and a half years, The Next to Die tracked every execution scheduled in the country, starting in 2015. This is what we learned. Although we are no longer updating these pages, you can read our ...

A Georgia bill offers a model for other states looking to protect people who are accused or convicted of crimes stemming from their abuse.

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