Over the past decade, there has been growing bipartisan consensus on the need for prison reform. US prison systems are seen as ineffective, or “broken,” due to the relatively high recidivism rates ...

University of Delaware researchers, partnering with the state Department of Correction, will take part in a national initiative to better understand prison conditions and ultimately make those ...

Today’s prisons often resemble medieval “oubliettes”, in which offenders are locked up to punish them for their actions and to protect society. Research shows this approach can worsen, rather than ...

Vermont is one of five states participating in a five-year research project surveying the living and work environments of prisons. The second of three surveys was released this week by the Vermont ...

Inside Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility. Photo by Cory Dawson/VTDigger Vermont has been selected as one of five states to participate in a national prison research program. The Urban ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A team of researchers at the University of Utah was awarded $8 million to launch the nation's first center dedicated solely to prison education research and leadership. "It's huge.

The conditions of confinement in today’s prisons and jails have many of the same characteristics that were of concern to the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and ...

The study on which this piece is based was carried out with Dr Katie Hunter (Lancaster University), Dr Julie Shaw (Liverpool John Moores University) and Dr Jo Staines (University of Bristol). This ...

The Prison Research Innovation Project ended in late 2023, but manager Dana Plunkett Cafourek said the state hopes to implement the innovations developed during the program across Missouri. “I think ...

In a windowless classroom at the John J. Moran medium-security prison in Cranston, R.I., three men sit around a table to share how and when they began using opioids. For Josh, now 39, it was when he ...

SOUTH BEND — Chris Foggie was in prison at the Westville Correctional Facility during the COVID-19 lockdown. Morale was low, he said, as outside visits and programs abruptly stopped and movement ...