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Chicago inmates can order fancy Italian pizza made in jail

CHICAGO – How can you get a gourmet Italian pizza delivered right to your door for no more than $7? Get locked up at Cook County Jail in Chicago. Inmates in the jail’s medium-secu...

Lawmakers call for clemency for inmate released 90 years early

DENVER – Colorado’s House unanimously called on the governor last week to grant clemency to a robbery-kidnapping convict who is back in prison after being mistakenly released decades early a...

Are too many of our young people going to prison?

Student activists fighting for more education, less incarceration

Judge knocks 2 years off former exterminator’s 21-year prison sentence

Man stole thousands from customers’ homes over 30 years

Colorado inmate freed early, jailed again asks for release

Man started family after he was mistakenly freed from prison

Colorado’s inmate population is growing

Tougher DUI law leads to spike

Obama administration to phase out, end private prison use

Audit found more safety violations at private facilities

Minorities overrepresented throughout criminal process in Colorado

At a time when inequities in criminal justice are the focus of intense national debate, blacks and Latinos are overrepresented at every step in Colorado’s criminal process compared with thei...

Woman gets 100 years for cutting baby from womb

Dynel Lynn does not express remorse at trial

Prison plays hide-and-seek with ex-polygamist sect leader

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Earlier this year, a wife of former polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs tried to visit him at a Texas state prison with a tiny microphone implanted in her hollowed-out wa...

Second of two escaped N.M. inmates arrested

Clah surrenders to police without putting up fight

What to do if U.S. begins capturing more suspected terrorists?

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has refused to send any suspected terrorists captured overseas to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. But if the U.S. starts seizing more militants in...