Despite a major increase in prison officer salaries, the Tennessee Department of Correction is hitting personnel shortages, ...

In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local ...

State legislatures are grappling with how to fund new prisons that Republican governors say are needed to ease overcrowding.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders and corrections officials have said is needed to ease state prison overcrowding, which has caused a large number of inmates to ... Thomas Jackson, a Democrat, said.