In a society all too ready to judge and label, new memoir The Prison Counsellor reveals the hidden humanity of young men ...

The California prison system is beginning a $38 million pilot project to test ways to keep cells cooler. It involves a limited test of cooling systems and new insulation at three of the state's ...

After firing 15% of prison guards following a strike, the state has created a massive backlog that's forcing some counties to ...

Demings held a press conference to knock down Ingoglia’s conclusions, saying increased spending could be tied to a growing ...

You don’t need me to tell you that the prison system is a miserable, dangerous mess. Decades of piling more and more people into prisons on ever longer sentences, and retrenchment of public ...

The nearly 30,000 people incarcerated in Illinois prisons may begin having their mail scanned and subjected to other security ...

Even though Hurricane Erin's top winds are not as intense as they once were, the storm has grown in size, so its impacts will spread over a wider area. The atmosphere ahead of Erin looks to be ...

After reports of cell keys being shared and the lights turned off, Denorris Howell was killed in his dark Parchman prison cell.

From one man’s cell to a nation’s policy, how solitary confinement reveals the true nature of American punishment.

Iryna Zarutska, 23, was stabbed to death on the LYNX Blue Line by a stranger who attacked her without provocation.

An Omaha lawmaker's unannounced visit to the McCook-based state prison that's converting to an ICE detention center sparks ...