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 ...

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 ...

Discussions about how a government's policies affect health often focus on health ministries or agencies responsible for ...

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 ...

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

When President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education earlier this year, he said that 40% of Baltimore City high schools have ZERO students proficient in ...

Louisiana has made the monumental decision to house Immigration Customs and Enforcement detainees at Angola Prison.

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

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

The Trump administration's impacts stretched from student loans to international enrollment, university leaders said.