Latest News What happens when you find out you just hired a ‘sex offender’? From Prison Legal News Fourth Circuit Holds Federal Prisoner Does Not Earn First Step Act Time Credits While in Transit Between PrisonsConstitutional Challenge to Louisiana Prison “Farm Line” Granted Class CertificationSCOTUS Sides with Federal Prisoner in Habeas Review CaseNinth Circuit Affirms $3.84 Million Jury Verdict in Death of San Bernardino Jail Detainee from Acute Alcohol WithdrawalLeaked Video Footage Shows California Prison Guards Engaged in Retaliatory Assault From the Charles Koch Institute American prisons house more than 1.5 million individuals, an increase of more than 390 percent since 1978.