Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PIERRE — As a farmer, Marty Overweg would hate to see perfectly good farmland wasted on building a prison. That's one of his ...

In an epic case of, “Tag, you’re it!,” the French government is building a “high-security prison” in the middle of the Amazon jungle in French Guiana. This prison will house the most dangerous ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and Islamic militants near a former penal colony in French Guiana, sparking an outcry among residents ...

A little more than two years ago, in December 2023, a consulting firm hired by Lancaster County’s commissioners to help plan the construction of a new prison estimated building the facility on a ...

This shift in both policy and opinion represents perhaps the greatest success of the “criminal-justice reform” movement, which maintains that incarceration is expensive, inhumane, and either doesn’t ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Blair County Prison Society is offering recommendations on designing a new county prison, based on the expertise of its members who have been making monthly visits for more than 25 ...