Gov. Jared Polis' budget director is sounding an alarm about the need for new prison facilities amid a growing inmate ...

Advocates say fewer parole options are keeping older inmates behind bars longer, increasing costs for taxpayers.

Political Reporter Haley Hetrick explains how prison population increases in Oklahoma take a bigger toll on state resources as the numbers continue to grow. For the third year in a row, Oklahoma’s ...

IDOC was faced with slowed revenue growth and a steadily rising prison population that has put a strain on existing ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado’s prisons will run out of beds for men in the next fiscal year unless significant changes are made to either reduce the prison population or ...

Forrest Abrams of Fayetteville was 18 years old when he was found dead in a Little Rock alleyway with four bullets in his back. Darrell Dennis was convicted of the 2013 murder. A man with a lengthy ...

Georgia’s prison population has grown steadily over the past few years and is expected to continue increasing, even as state leaders acknowledge ongoing staffing shortages across the prison system.

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