Last week, the Federal Bureau of Prisons posted a video of Deputy Director Josh Smith vowing to “make the BOP great again.” The seven-minute clip echoes the promises of change agency leaders have ...

Forty-two-year-old Princeo Brooks was killed by a cellmate at Greensville Correctional Center, but the family didn’t learn ...

Despite work to improve the justice system, insufficient attention is paid to conditions behind bars. Prisons and jails must ...

An attorney with the public defender's office says her client and 18 other women were subject to humiliating and intimidating ...

Arthur Price, 40, was sentenced to an additional 40 years after killing Paul Hack, 65, at Limon Correctional Facility in 2023 ...

Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for a case in which he ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Advocates for prison reform were in Albany on Tuesday, calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Omnibus Prison Reform Act into law. The bill would require correctional facilities to ...

DEER LODGE, Mont. — One week after a catastrophic water system failure at Montana State Prison, state corrections officials opened the gates Friday to give media a firsthand look at how staff, inmates ...

Early one morning in 2003, I woke up next to my girlfriend, Ambere, in the Venice Beach apartment that we shared. Sunlight flitted over the Pacific Ocean and into our bedroom. I ate breakfast and ...

Lois May Frisk (Fields), passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 4, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at the age of 90. Born in Koztá, Iowa, on April 18, 1935, the daughter of George Wilbur and Ruth ...

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Lois May (Fields) Frisk, 90, of Cedar Rapids, passed away on Saturday, October 4, 2025, at Harmony of Cedar Rapids. Celebration of Life Services will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, October 19, 2025, at Brosh ...