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Like most other institutions, prisons cannot run on repression alone. Prisoners’ conformity to the rules doesn’t come solely at the end of a baton: there needs to be a carrot as well as a stick. The ...

Shaidon Blake says a false disciplinary report cost him parole. Shaidon Blake says he didn't threaten officers in prison, but a disciplinary report saying he did might have cost him parole. Kansas ...

Report finds an ongoing racial imbalance in prison discipline, but avoids pointing to racial bias among correctional staff as the sole reason for the disparity Exterior of the Coxsackie Correctional ...

Once in prison, reality was so hard to face that I did everything I could to escape it. I lost even more of myself in drugs, violence and jailhouse politics. In my more lucid moments I knew that I had ...

Albany, N.Y. — Black and Hispanic people incarcerated in New York state prisons are more likely than white people to face further punishment once they wind up behind bars, according to a state ...