Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, over 20 percent of the world's prisoners ...

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

Socorro County has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who alleges he was forced to live surrounded by his own waste in a county jail cell with no running water for weeks, ...

The state and the correctional officers’ union agreed that officers should return to work Monday and that some provisions of ...

It's also a reminder of the disarray that ensues from strikes put on by state employees, who hold monopolies on public goods.

The main feature of the tentative agreement involves the suspension of regulations, under the Humane Alternatives to ...

During its tour of prison, Times of Malta insisted on being shown cells the ombudsman’s report specifically singled out as almost inhumane. One of them was a solitary confinement cell where an ...

He has spent nearly five decades in prison. His violent rampage led authorities to place him in extreme solitary confinement, inside a glass-walled cell built specifically to contain him.

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

We would gather at my father’s house, eat radish cakes and joke about who had gained the most weight during the holidays.

As of now, people incarcerated who end up in solitary confinement can be given up to 15 days with two hours of out-of-cell time. For more serious offenses, they can be given a maximum of 30 days with ...