Discover why punishment-based prisons fail, and how psychology offers a more humane and effective path to justice.

No one wants to go to prison, but there's one particular prison in Idaho that's especially feared. Why? According to the Associated Press, over the past two years, more prisoner-on-prisoner assaults ...

Trump’s deportations may face a legal challenge on the grounds that deported men were sent to prison without a trial. Trump’s lawyers have pointed to the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and said it gave the ...

Two men with felony records who were caught with firearms in one of Richmond’s most vulnerable neighborhoods for crime and gun violence were sentenced Monday to prison terms. The cases stemmed from a ...

Let’s unpack prison abolition and how the U.S. came to incarcerate 2 million people. The United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world, and people across the political ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has pressed for quickly deporting hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran men who are said to belong to a foreign crime gang. Those deportations have been challenged ...

Re “The taking of cell 15” (Spotlight, Page A1, Aug. 15): As a former Massachusetts Department of Correction commissioner, my belief is that people are sentenced to prison as punishment, not for ...

President Trump has pressed for quickly deporting hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran men who are said to belong to a foreign crime gang. Those deportations have been challenged as illegal — and ...