The incarceration rate of Black Americans has fallen sharply in the 21st century, according to a new study, but the trend has ...

More people are incarcerated in the United States than any other country, with 1,808,100 prisoners, and the fifth-highest incarceration rate at 541 per 1,000 people, just barely below Turkmenistan ...

State Sen. Bryan King (R-Green Forest) filed six bills recently in an effort to curb what he calls Arkansas' "three-headed ...

State Senator Brian King is aiming for a new project aimed at halting Governor Sarah Sanders' controversial prison expansion ...

Oklahoma’s rate of 550 prisoners per 100,000 residents is the lowest reported by the federal agency in decades. Oklahoma had the nation’s highest imprisonment rate as recently as 2018 when ...

A long-term study of youth who have experienced incarceration in British Columbia has found that those who have spent more ...

Rep. Marco Erickson, R-Idaho Falls, voted in favor of the fentanyl law and funding for the new prison despite his concerns over Idaho’s high female incarceration rate. Erickson, who is also a ...

Senator Bryan King introduced bills that he hopes will address the high crime rate, high incarceration rate, and overcrowded ...

More than 500 advocates and lawmakers rallied side by side at the Capitol building in Albany Tuesday, asking for the passage ...

State Sen. Bryan King, R-Green Forest, filed a slate of bills on Thursday meant to improve the Arkansas' incarceration and ...

Oklahoma was one of 12 states to reduce its prison population in 2023, though its incarceration rate remains among the highest in the nation.