A new report shows that the Black prison population has notably downsized the most. The total prison population has declined by 25% after reaching its peak in 2009, and the Black prison population has ...

Andre Gay spent more than 50 years in prison and watched himself and others grow older behind bars. By one measure, about a third of all prisoners will be considered geriatric by 2030. (Nate Smallwood ...

State prison populations nationwide dropped 14 percent in 2020, a decrease greater than the previous ten years combined. But contrary to popular belief, the decline was not necessarily caused by an ...

A growing portion of the country's prison population is older than 55. That's meant higher costs for prisons and new efforts to provide care for advanced medical needs of the incarcerated. The number ...

Colorado passes bills to ease prison overcrowding, expanding parole for young offenders and adjusting early release criteria.

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When Andre Gay went to state prison in Pennsylvania in 1972, he was just 16 years old, sentenced to life without parole for murder and aggravated robbery. "I was a kid when I came to jail," he says, ...