The state’s prisons unconstitutionally coerced prison labor by levying severe punishments — including solitary confinement — against prisoners who refused to work, Denver District Court Judge ...

Starting salaries for Florida correctional officers, probation officers and inspectors could increase to $28 an hour, Lt. Gov ...

Base pay for correctional officers in Florida could rise $6 per hour.

Florida is often described as a beacon for religious liberty, grounded in a simple constitutional truth: Government may neither establish religion nor prohibit its free exercise. That principle ...

An off-duty Florida Department of Corrections officer was out for a jog on Saturday morning when a man shot at him, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to the shooting at ...

A spokeswoman for the Office of General Services noted results of a May 2023 air-quality assessment were normal and that the state cleaned the area after the ceiling collapsed. Problems were the ...

SALEM, Ore. — The mom whose 22-year-old son died in Oregon Department of Corrections custody has settled with the agency for $2.3 million, according to the Oregon Justice Resource Center. The civil ...

The board hired Hall Booth Smith more than two years ago to challenge Acts 185 and 659, passed in 2023, which sought to alter the reporting structure for the secretary or the directors in the ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Corrections held a news conference Thursday morning to address what it calls "misinformation" by the Department of Homeland Security regarding ICE in the ...

Democratic South Florida lawmakers and health care advocates on Wednesday denounced the Florida Health Department’s decision to reduce the number of Floridians eligible for the state’s AIDS Drug ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal correctional officers’ pay will increase by 35%, under a bipartisan bill introduced this month. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, ...