Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The G. Norton Jameson Annex at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) The G.

A new bill would prohibit jail officials from suspending phone privileges for more than 90 days consecutively, or 180 days in one year. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Lawmakers want to limit how ...

When Monica Cosby, Tyteanna Williams and Celia Colon talk about the years they spent as inmates at women's prisons in Illinois, their stories often turn to the times they would be disciplined for what ...

Shaidon Blake says a false disciplinary report cost him parole. Shaidon Blake says he didn't threaten officers in prison, but a disciplinary report saying he did might have cost him parole. Kansas ...

Report finds an ongoing racial imbalance in prison discipline, but avoids pointing to racial bias among correctional staff as the sole reason for the disparity Exterior of the Coxsackie Correctional ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Black and Hispanic people incarcerated in New York state prisons are more likely than white people to face further punishment once they wind up behind bars, according to a state ...

Albany, N.Y. — Black and Hispanic people incarcerated in New York state prisons are more likely than white people to face further punishment once they wind up behind bars, according to a state ...