At Stillwater, corrections officials are testing an “earned living unit” that trades privileges for accountability and has gone two months without a lockdown.

On February 16, 2000, Scott Favreau, then 17, committed a crime that shattered a family and shocked the state of Vermont. In the early hours of the morning, he walked up to his foster mother, who was ...

Each time a door clangs shut behind us, my heart races a little faster. We’ve taken off our shoes, belts, and jewelry to get through security, handed over our IDs, and left phones and laptops in the ...

Inmates at the Bismarck state prison launched a podcast, Chainz to Changed, focusing on life in prison and preparing for re-entry. Zach Schmidkunz, left, and Antonio Stridiron, center, speak with a ...

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It was a gray morning in Marin County and the wind was howling on the tennis court. I was waiting for Matt "Doc" Montana, a middle-aged bespectacled man that I had just met, to serve. We were starting ...