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Prisoners haven't been able to vote in New Jersey since 1844 for obvious reasons, but it's a whole new world now that Uncle Phil is in office.

The Obama administration said Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to Iran seven months ago was contingent on the release of a group of American prisoners.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch is urging the nation's governors to make it easier for convicted felons to obtain state-issued identification after they get out of prison, part of a broader plan being announced Monday to help smooth the path for state and federal inmates who are preparing to re-enter society.

College education in American prisons is starting to grow again, more than two decades since federal government dollars were prohibited from being used for college programs behind bars.

The Justice Department should limit the types of cases it brings and more nonviolent criminals should be steered toward probation and away from prison, according to task force recommendations designed to cut the federal inmate count and save more than $5 billion.

An error by Washington state's Department of Corrections that resulted in wrongly calculated sentences for about 3 percent of the prison population led to the early release of more than 3,000 prisoners in the state since 2002.

More than 20 years after banning prisoners from receiving student aid, some federal and state inmates could be eligible for Pell grant money to take college courses while still behind bars.

An increasing number of New Jersey inmates are maxing out their sentences, and are being released without supervision according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

State Senator Ronald Rice has introduced a bill that would allow prisoners, parolees and probationers to still have part of their civic rights if they are a veteran. Under current laws, convicted felons aren't allowed to vote until they have served their full sentences prison time, probation and parole...

The latest way you can watch your tax dollars fly out of your pocket is with the story by Townsquare Media's own Kevin McArdle, regarding a recent audit of the Office of the State Comptroller.