(Inside California Politics) — A prison once defined by death row is now being redefined by rehabilitation. That was the message Gov. Gavin Newsom gave Friday during a visit to the new San Quentin ...

Enrique Sandoval, Daniel Arciniega and Eleazar Alicantar learn English language skills in class at San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday. In March 2023, Gov. Newsom announced a plan to transform the ...

California’s parole board keeps using drug test results from prison addiction treatment programs when it decides who gets released, even though doctors and attorneys say the tests can be wrong ...

More than 60 percent of the women in Oklahoma's prisons have been identified as in need of substance abuse treatment, but few will be able to enter a program, according to a 2010 state report on ...

The following guest blogger, artist Maria Maneos, BFA, MFA, came to my attention a little over a year ago when she contacted me about an amazing project she had recently developed—an arts program for ...

When Colorado lawmakers overhauled the state’s system of sentencing and monitoring sex offenders in 1998, supporters described the lifetime supervision policy as a comprehensive way to protect the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly half the people incarcerated in Wisconsin's prisons for non-violent crimes have a mental illness. That's almost 3,500 ...

Evan Ashkin, a family physician and director of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program, has long been concerned about people who are returning to the community from prison — ...