The unexpected transfer to the West Virginia prison known as “Misery Mountain” caused me to wonder: Was I being retaliated against?

Gov. Tony Evers announced a massive corrections overhaul that would completely change the structure of Wisconsin’s prison ...

Seven prisoners have died since the correction officers strike began, raising concerns about safety in state prisons and ...

In 2022, an explosion at a Russian penal colony killed dozens of surrendered Ukrainian soldiers. Families are still fighting ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the ...

A contract to reopen a privately owned Newark detention center may be the first in a wave of reopenings of shuttered ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison after noting questions about his case. Ivey said Myers, who was facing ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid ...

Prisons are institutions of warfare that masquerade as apolitical instruments of crime control, says an anthropologist.

New York state troopers are serving court notices ordering corrections officers to end their unauthorized strike as the state ...

A few months into newly elected Sheriff Jerry Sheridan’s term at the helm of Maricopa County’s extensive network of jails and ...

Two guards were killed when armed assailants helped Mohamed Amra escape from a prison convoy last May, prompting a ...