A local organization focused on how economics affects society held a meeting that looked at mass incarceration.

If you are focused on the number of criminals in prison, you are not focused on the crimes they committed or will commit when they are free.

The English historian Thomas Fuller once wrote, “Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile ...

Advocates and families are urging the FCC to maintain affordable prison communication rates, as the FCC is set to consider ...

A recent Herald-Leader article on women in Kentucky's jails opened with a stunning line: "If Kentucky were its own country, the commonwealth would incarcerate women at a higher rate than every nation ...

Fear of street crime and criminals is a politically charged issue. Politicians stoke that fear to gain the consent of voters, from the anti-black Willie Horton commercial ads of GOP President Bush 1 ...

Worth Rises has criticized the FCC's proposal to increase the phone call rate cap for incarcerated people, arguing that it ...