Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Men exercise in the maximum security yard of the Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kan. The prison population in Kansas ...

Despite what you may have heard from Donald Trump, crime rates in the U.S. have declined steadily since the mid-1990s, and are currently at their lowest levels in more than four decades. And yet, the ...

The U.S. prison population increased for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing a decade-long decline. The female prison population is growing at a faster rate than the male population, rising ...

Prisons are not social dustbins, yet many societies continue to treat them as such. Prisons have drifted away from the ...

West Virginia’s prison population has ballooned over the past decade and now, between 30% and 35% of people incarcerated are ...