Regulations that restrict use of solitary confinement are being temporarily suspended in the wake of prison strikes and ...

Corrections officers in New York say their working conditions are dangerous and they are forced into overtime. They have ...

However, the law has faced opposition from some lawmakers, including Republican Congressman Nick Langworthy, who believes the ...

Cinematic portrayals of inmates being thrown in a dingy, small, unlit cell with no running water and only a slit in the door for occasional food for years ...

Transforming Lives Behind Bars. In the heart of California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, an innovative experiment in higher ...

In his quest for a single-man cell, Jack was told he had a chemical imbalance in his brain that was causing irrational ...

Among the second chances offered in U.S. prisons is the first in-person bachelor’s program inside a maximum security yard.

Three Aryan Brotherhood members were convicted of orchestrating murders and other crimes from California prisons. But will ...

They’re known as “frog men,” inmates who are forced to sleep on prison floors across the Dominican Republic, often next to ...