Immigrants in U.S. illegally work in Mississippi communities, pay taxes, shop at local businesses. What does illegal ...

More than a year after a state-appointed court in Jackson, Mississippi, became law and lawsuits were dismissed challenging ...

Senate Corrections Chairman Juan Barnett's effort to close Mississippi State Penitentiary has died for a second year.

Mississippi lawmakers will consider requiring state prisons to provide inmates on work assignments with protective gear. The ...

Officials say transferring the prisoners is a necessary step to manage prison populations and make needed upgrades and ...

The Montana's Department of Corrections is working to relieve overcrowding at the state prison.Officials have transported 120 ...

The new agreement includes a plan to send 240 Montana inmates to the company's private prison in Tutwiler, Mississippi.

Five years after a gang war and unrest at Mississippi’s prisons left a dozen dead from homicides and suicides, officials say these prisons are different places. They pointed to the Mississippi ...

Since 2020, a few MS office holders and state officials took 136 tax-funded trips on the state airplane, costing taxpayers ...

Private prison company CoreCivic has announced it will contract with the State of Montana to transfer 240 inmates to the ...