This approach balances punishment with the opportunity for rehabilitation, potentially leading to reduced recidivism and a more efficient prison system.

The Minister of Correctional Services, Pieter Groenewald is on a revolutionary path and South Africans are celebrating his ...

Idaho lawmakers recently passed a bill that would authorize the use of firing squads if lethal injections drugs are unavailable. Other states have also authorized firing squads.

A recently convicted former California corrections officer who sexually assaulted and abused female inmates is a symptom of a failing system.

BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina federal prison supervisor has been convicted after investigators say he instructed a correctional officer to physically punish a man incarcerated at the ...