Corrections Digest

Oklahoma needs new funding to add 4,000 beds over the next budget cycle to accommodate growing demand for...

Sentencing reform and the "reinvention of parole" are the best long-term solutions for California's prison capacity problems, according...

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Arizona's legislature is considering a proposal to amend state law to reduce by three to six months the...

The governor's office has begun planning for a new 1,024-bed, medium-security prison that would be constructed in a...

Hawaii is making only slow improvement in meeting conditions of a federal consent decree for upgrading medical and...

The House State Affairs Committee defeated a bill that would have repealed capital punishment.

Prison sentences provide little deterrence in crime prevention, according to new research from the non-profit Vera Institute of...

Officers are lobbying the legislature for a 25 percent increase over three years in the current starting salary...

The Supreme Court decided California's law that gives judges discretion in setting sentences is unconstitutional.

The Board of Parole arrests only 15 percent of parole violators, according to a state newspaper.

The House passed its first bill, HB 69, placing new restrictions on a governor's powers to grant executive...

Attorney General Lori Swanson proposed legislation to stiffen penalties for using the Internet to stalk sexual victims and...

A new policy that took effect in January reduces the probability of contraband entering prisons by requiring all...

A prison has sole authority for the assignment of, and conditions of confinement for, an inmate, said the...

A federal maximum-security unit scheduled to open in Tucson is luring officers from a nearby state prison with...

The House approved a bill, HB 1259, to set a 10-year sentence for a third conviction for drunk...

Texas must expand substance abuse treatment to curb a steady climb in the inmate population that has consumed...

April 10-20-Correctional Leadership Conference, National Institute of Corrections, Longmont, Colo.

Prisoners can advance legitimate claims in federal court even though some of the contentions made in the lawsuit...