For more than 40 years, the United States—a nation that putatively cherishes freedom—has had one of the largest prison systems in the world. Mass incarceration has been so persistent and pervasive ...

The U.S. went through a prison-building boom decades ago. But today, many prisons are closing down, and that's hit some economies in rural America especially hard. A lot of U.S. prisons are closing ...

A lot of U.S. prisons are closing down, after the industry went through a building boom decades ago. It was a complicated calculus with a lot of social impacts, but it's also hit the economic fortunes ...