Kerwin Pittman knows how hard it is to secure housing after being released from jail, so he bought an abandoned prison and is renovating it so former inmates can live there when they get out.

Emile Suotonye DeWeaver was about to become a father at 18 when he was sentenced to 67 years to life in prison for murder and attempted murder. In his new book, the formerly incarcerated activist ...

LANSING—This year, Michigan’s prison recidivism rate, or the number of people leaving prison and then returning, is the lowest on record, with nearly 80% of ex-inmates staying out of prison three ...