Tags: Prisons

The state's go-to disciplinary tool

Though not on the same page

To the tune of $70,000 per year, plus health insurance, a state tuition waiver and reimbursement for legal fines and fees

Locked up for drunk driving

Guards who will soon experience brief furloughs want to know, "Why aren't the inmates suffering more?"

Alan Gross is serving a 15-year sentence for illegally bringing communication equipment to the island

Yet more drawbacks to mass incarceration.

Ben Zygier worked for the Israeli intelligence agency

There are a lot of damned laws

He should have earned some goodwill, by now

Country had said it had stopped using it years ago

Prison population up 800 percent since 1980, nearly two-thirds for immigration, drug offenses

Governor challenges lawyers over legitimacy of cases

More than half of all inmates have some sort of mental issue

Accused of ruining a man's name during a business dispute