Geese sleep on the grounds outside of Taylorville Correctional Center in Christian County, Illinois Credit: Jason Matthews/Flickr via CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 This spring, the Illinois House is set to take up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An inmate holding a tray of food in their jail cell - cazawi/Shutterstock You'd be naive to think that food in federal or state ...

I believe for profit prisons are very much an Anglo trend Traditionally US obviously uses them by far the largest degree, (some states do so heavily) but UK Australia and New Zealand also have them.

Several states, including California, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, are shuttering prisons as inmate populations decline and budgets tighten. The reprieve means that roughly 90 staff members won’t have ...

To restate the obvious: For-profit prisons are a terrible idea. We already know they’re terrible for inmates (whose housing, food, health care, and “security” are controlled, 24 hours a day, by ...

It's an odd country, really. Our largest growth industries are gambling and prisons. But as you may have heard, crimes rates are dropping. We're not putting people into prison for hurting other people ...

Binance (CRYPTO: BNB) founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao recounted his experience in a U.S. prison in an interview aired Tuesday, shedding light on the system's inner workings and racial dynamics. During the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You'd be naive to think that food in federal or state prison is up to par with a gourmet meal by Bobby Flay. Honestly, you'd be naive to think ...