Innovative programs make them safer while enhancing opportunities for success after release. Some states are showing the way.

Florida's SB 106 aims to set humane standards for incarcerated people, addressing heat, nutrition, and hygiene in state ...

The Vera Institute of Justice has partnered with the Connecticut Department of Correction to participate in Designed for ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New York’s prisons face a human rights complaint filed with the United Nations. Filed this week, it coincides with the release of an oversight report on the Humane ...

The state prisons at Cambridge Springs, Smithfield, and Fayette are in the process of being retrofitted with the Scandinavian ...

For three years, Andrew Osborne helped his bosses promote the idea that good design could make imprisonment more humane. As a ...

The state Department of Corrections is in the process of expanding a pilot housing program modeled after more humane prisons in Scandanavia to three additional prisons, the agency disclosed Thursday, ...