Latest News What happens when you find out you just hired a ‘sex offender’? From Prison Legal News “Like the Walking Dead”: Smuggled Drugs Fuel Chaos Inside Ohio PrisonsIdaho DOC Director Denies Verified Report of Rampant Sexual Abuse of Women Prisoners by StaffPrisoners in Norfolk, Virginia Left on Extended Lockdown$9.8 Million in Settlements Reached with South Carolina County and Wellpath in Gruesome Jail DeathNew York Juvenile Detention Officials Sued for Abusing Adolescents with Solitary Confinement From the Charles Koch Institute American prisons house more than 1.5 million individuals, an increase of more than 390 percent since 1978.