prisons

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice confirmed that dozens of prisoners are refusing to eat. Organizers said they want an end to indefinite solitary confinement.

New grant funding will help more inmates go to college. Additional money flowing to higher education could create more class options.

Transgender inmates say they were targets of harassment by staff and inmates that put them in danger.

The Kansas Department of Corrections has been losing staff throughout 2021. Now, it doesn't have enough people to have in-person visitation at one of its prisons. Visits were also shutdown earlier in the pandemic.

There are more than 400 uniformed vacancies at Kansas Department of Corrections prisons. The worker shortage means corrections officers taking on tons of overtime and inmates are locked in their cells for long stretches.

Prisons run by the Kansas Department of Corrections aren't always air-conditioned, and inmates and staff who work inside say the heat can be unbearable.

The state's high court ruled the state's criminal registry rules aren't punitive and that they can be imposed even in crimes committed before the statutes demanding life-long check-ins were imposed.

Kansas prisons were hotbeds of coronavirus infections early in the pandemic, but vaccinations appear to have protected those inmates living in close quarters.

Inmate suicides rose despite a prison population that decreased last year by about 20,000 from the year before.

It’s mid-March, and our gardens will soon be front-and-center in the minds of us High Plains horticulturalist types. So today’s Growing on the High Plains…