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Advocates say the expansion in virtual education could hold promise for inmates, many of whom lack basic literacy skills.

A measure moving forward in the Florida House would allow pregnant women convicted of felonies to seek to delay going to prison for up to three months after giving birth.

After more than three years of legal battling, the Florida Department of Corrections has fended off a lawsuit over the use of solitary confinement in prisons.

Lawyers and health experts, as well as incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals, say getting gender-affirming care in prison often comes only after threats of lawsuits or a full legal fight.

The city of Philadelphia issued an apology Thursday for the unethical medical experiments performed on mostly Black inmates at its Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Federal prisoners said to be the most dangerous are sent to a special unit at an Illinois penitentiary. NPR and The Marshall Project have uncovered violence, abuse and a string of inmate deaths there.

Research shows the average time between sentencing and execution has increased by two-thirds in the past 20 years.

Miami-Dade County jails charge inmates $2 a day for room and board, a fee that’s rarely paid and creates a shadow economy behind bars that administrators want to eliminate.

The Department of Corrections says the change will reduce the amount of contraband coming into prisons. Florida prisons are in the process of converting incoming snail mail to a digital-only format.

An estimated 300,000 people were held in solitary confinement in the U.S. at the height of the pandemic. Advocates are pushing to limit the practice, citing lasting harm to prisoners' health.

Ecuador's president has declared a state of emergency in the prison system, blaming the violence on rival gangs. The prison near Guayaquil holds nearly 10,000 inmates.

A catastrophe was averted at Piney Point, but what about all of our other estuaries and waterways? Thousands of prisoners in Florida are finally getting their vaccines. Plus, the isolation we’ve struggled with over the past year due to the pandemic could have long-term effects.