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About one in six people released from North Carolina prisons in 2023 were homeless, according to figures provided to NC Newsline — a rate the state hopes to cut in half by 2030. That goal is one part of an executive order issued by Gov. Roy Cooper in January to improve reentry supports for people […] The post Three thousand people were released from NC prisons to homelessness last year appeared first on NC Newsline.

The Missouri Department of Corrections must pay more than $60,000 for refusing to give records to a mother trying to find out how her son died in 2021 while in state custody. And that amount could grow, both because the department lost an appeal of an order finding it violated the Sunshine Law and because […] The post Missouri prison agency to pay $60K for Sunshine Law violations over inmate death records appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Do more NJ inmates deserve pardons? ACLU attorney explains the thinking behind the group's Clemency Project.

A legislative leader says he's receiving dozens of calls a week about assaults in state prisons and DOC needs to do more to stop the violence

Georgia State University is blaming federal rules for the return of Pell Grants as a primary reason for its decision to close its prison education program this summer. The program won’t admit any new students but the university said it has a plan to help currently enrolled students at two state prisons finish their programs, […]