General population inmates walk in a line at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday that the California prison system must ...

SPRINGFIELD - A prison watchdog group says the state's mushrooming prison population is forcing some inmates to wait years for substance abuse treatment programs. The Chicago-based John Howard ...

Nearly half the people incarcerated in Wisconsin's prisons for non-violent crimes have a mental illness. That's almost 3,500 people who could have benefited from the Treatment Alternatives and ...

What it’s intended to do is to lock up the most dangerous sexual offenders until they are safe to rejoin society,” a state ...

LUDLOW — When police picked up Jose Pellot this spring, he was confused. The Southbridge man hadn’t committed a crime, and he wasn’t accused of one. But his doctor had recently filed a petition for ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs is spending his early prison days working in the chapel and enrolled in an intensive drug treatment program, according to prison documents exclusively obtained by CBS News. He has ...

Recidivism reveals a gap between punishment and rehabilitation. Psychology explains why incarceration alone rarely transforms ...

Evan Ashkin, a family physician and director of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program, has long been concerned about people who are returning to the community from prison — ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs is a busy man behind bars. The disgraced rapper, 56, is enrolled in an intensive drug treatment program and working in the chapel at the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution in ...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. PIERRE, S.D. – As much as lawmakers debated whether South Dakota ...