“This isn’t ‘Scared Straight,’” Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins said. “This is truth. (The female inmates) were in your position, but you’re being given something they didn’t have. People are ...

An Atlanta man has been sentenced to over 150 years in prison for killing his 4-year-old daughter by denying her food and ...

In a world where overthinking drowns us in endless noise, true courage lies in finding peace and choosing to live beyond the ...

IT WAS the moment Shavoughne Firth had been waiting for – finally her abuser had been caught in the act. But as the relief ...

Alan G. Hassenfeld, a renowned philanthropist and former CEO of iconic toy company Hasbro Inc., the maker of G.I. Joe and Play-Doh, has died.

I grew up in poverty, with a father in and out of prison, a mother addicted to heroin, and my cousins caught up in gangs.

Winfield Ward Murray provides Burruss Correctional Training Center inmates with access to higher education as part of a ...

I’ve never met my aunt Carol, but I’ve loved her—and missed her—my whole life. Especially when I remember that the last man ...

Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...