prisons

The Department of Corrections has arrested three staff members at three different state prisons for trying to smuggle in drugs.

For about five months, all mail sent to inmates in Pennsylvania's state prisons has been routed through a processing facility in Florida, where it is searched and photocopied.Inmates get the copy. The original is destroyed, though it's digitally retained for 45 days.

A federal trial is underway on whether Pennsylvania’s policy for handling legal mail sent to prisons violates inmates’ First Amendment rights.

Hearings have begun in a federal case over whether Pennsylvania’s prison system is violating inmates’ First Amendment Rights. Legal mail is at the center of the debate.

A trial is slated to start Tuesday in a federal court in Harrisburg over the way the state prison system delivers legal mail to prisoners.

There’s a proposal to raise the salary that inmates in New York State get for doing certain jobs in prison.

The Department of Justice is asking its Office of the Inspector General to investigate how inmates in a Brooklyn jail were left in cells without heat or power for days.

Three years since the state Department of Human Services first settled a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Pennsylvania says the situation is improving, but the state still hasn't met the terms of the settlement.

When the U.S. Census Bureau measures population, prison inmates are counted as residents of the communities where they are incarcerated. The practice can affect how lines are drawn in congressional and legislative redistricting efforts, which will take place after the 2020 census.

Browder endured nearly three years on Rikers, most of it in solitary confinement, awaiting trial that never happened. He committed suicide in 2015. His death led to nationwide criminal justice reform.