Most of us only know what prison life looks like thanks to movies and TV shows — and those tend to exaggerate almost everything. In reality, a lot of what people believe about prison is a mix of myths ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Plainly put, Josh Smith could be enjoying life with his family on a faraway beach anywhere in the world. Instead, the 51-year-old former felon spends his days on the road visiting a ...

Federal Prisons, and state prisons across the country, are suffering from a lack of workers to fill these important jobs. What will it take to change it. The staffing crisis in American prisons did ...

Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59 ...

The First Step Act represented one of the most significant federal prison reform efforts in decades. Passed with bipartisan support in 2018, the law was intended to reduce recidivism, expand ...