Confined to their cells for all but 30 minutes a day, denied visits, forced to sleep on stainless steel cots without ...

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a 24-state coalition filing a brief arguing that taxpayers should not ...

Senate Bill 2047 by Sen. Juan Barnett proposed a four-year phase down of operations at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at ...

The Northern Territory's soaring prison population has broken a grim new record. More than four and half thousand people are ...

Charlotte Kaufman co-directs the harrowing Alabama prison doc headed for HBO and an Oscar campaign. "You say democracy dies ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas prison system is making it easier and safer to handle court appearances. On Tuesday, the Department ...

The new documentary "The Alabama Solution" uses cell phone footage to reveal shocking conditions inside Alabama prisons.

With a fresh release looming, experts are still debating whether those let out should be exiled or allowed to stay in the ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced in December that FPC Pensacola is among several federal facilities to close.

The New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, or DOCCS, has placed Upstate Correctional Facility in ...

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system ...

Donna Adelson testified about two inmates who claim they spoke with a conspirator in the Dan Markel murder and got ...