State prisons chief Tyrone Oliver asked Georgia lawmakers Monday for $10.4 million to hire an additional 330 correctional ...

Conditions at Atlanta's main prison are "inhumane, violent, and hazardous," a Justice Department official said Thursday following an investigation into the Fulton County Jail. "Detention in the ...

Last year Prisoner Menafee was released from Atlanta penitentiary on a writ of habeas corpus, only to be returned when a Federal court changed its mind. Again, last week the only person who could ...

ATLANTA — On Tuesday, state lawmakers tried to gauge how much more taxpayer money it will take to make state prisons safer. Gov. Brian Kemp released a prison budget that his office says can ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The head of the Bureau of Prisons is out of a job. Forbes reported that Colette Peters resigned on Monday, ...

Onetime Representative John Wesley Langley of Kentucky was so well-loved by the people of his district that they elected his wife to Congress when he was in the Atlanta Penitentiary for conspiracy ...

Amy Jacques, editor, feminist, and race activist, was Marcus Garvey's second wife and his principal lieutenant during his incarceration in an Atlanta penitentiary from 1925 to 1927. Born in ...

Tyrone Oliver seeks $10.4 million to hire 330 correctional officers and improve staff-to-inmate ratios in Georgia's ...

State prisons chief Tyrone Oliver asked Georgia lawmakers Monday for $10.4 million to hire an additional 330 correctional ...