Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Men exercise in the maximum security yard of the Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kan. The prison population in Kansas ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keith Humphreys, professor at Stanford, about the falling prison population in the U.S., and the reasons behind that trend. For much of modern history, the U.S. has held ...

The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline. A new prison population report from the federal Bureau of Justice ...

The American flag flying at Holman Correctional Facility on Oct. 22, 2019. The Alabama Sentencing Commission estimates that the state prison population could reach up to 28,000 inmates by 2030, due to ...

ROGERS -- The prison population in Arkansas is on a steady upward trend that is expected to continue through 2035, one of the nation's leading experts on corrections analysis told state lawmakers last ...