A new jail in Pensacola is being considered for 26 acres which was home to the Escambia Wood Treating Company (ETC) who was found to have contaminated an underground aquifer and hundreds of thousands of tons of soil.

An Arkansas Department of Correction prisoner died Monday afternoon while working on a construction project at the department's Ester Unit in Pine Bluff.

An Arkansas Department of Correction prisoner died Monday afternoon while working on a construction project at the department's Ester Unit in Pine Bluff.

A three-day conference, called “Advancing Justice: An Agenda for Human Dignity & Public Safety,” was billed by one of its organizers as “transideological.” The two governors who spoke at the conference – Democrat Jack Markell from Delaware and Republican Asa Hutchinson from Arkansas – did not come armed with press releases about new policies that they would be implementing.

State House Day of Action Sentencing Commission Hearing Wednesday November 18, 2015 10:30 a.m. Room # tba

November 21 @ 9:00 am - 4:30 pm Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall

Vox explains corporate America's continuing financial abuse of prisoners through debit release cards and Senator Booker's request to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to impose stricter regulations on the practice.