Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PIERRE — As a farmer, Marty Overweg would hate to see perfectly good farmland wasted on building a prison. That's one of his ...

In an epic case of, “Tag, you’re it!,” the French government is building a “high-security prison” in the middle of the Amazon jungle in French Guiana. This prison will house the most dangerous ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and Islamic militants near a former penal colony in French Guiana, sparking an outcry among residents ...

Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done, and where the ragman draws circles, up and down the block.

ROGERS -- One state senator who has been critical of the governor's plan to build a 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County this week spoke of pressure some lawmakers received over votes to fund the ...

Opponents to building the prison in Franklin County have said the area doesn't have enough water for a 3,000-bed prison, and that constructing the facility there could disrupt the area's water table.

A little more than two years ago, in December 2023, a consulting firm hired by Lancaster County’s commissioners to help plan the construction of a new prison estimated building the facility on a ...

This shift in both policy and opinion represents perhaps the greatest success of the “criminal-justice reform” movement, which maintains that incarceration is expensive, inhumane, and either doesn’t ...

Many of the cells at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility are much smaller than the recommended prison standards. Most of the facility also lacks air conditioning. A crumbling correctional facility in ...