While Keri Blakinger was incarcerated, she papered her cell walls with pictures her romantic partner drew for her. “I was dating someone who liked drawing things instead of using words, and having ...

From college-in-prison programs to job training, women are building futures that punishment alone was never designed to create. The College-in-Prison Program is a partnership between Tulane University ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prisons, in general, are for people sentenced for more serious crimes. The sentences are usually longer, and can be up to life.

In the spring of 1968, with crime rising at alarming rates across the country, Republican candidate for president Richard Nixon gave a speech in New York City outlining his solutions for America’s ...