Despite work to improve the justice system, insufficient attention is paid to conditions behind bars. Prisons and jails must ...

Together, they reveal how a global vision of mass incarceration is spreading, one cellblock at a time. These facilities ...

Colorado Department of Corrections Correctional Officer David Aldana walks along the third level of cell house #8 at the Fremont Correctional Facility during a formal count at the prison in Canon City ...

Bryan Kohberger is set to spend the rest of his life in one of America’s worst prisons — a maximum-security hellhole that faces accusations of feces-smeared cages, brutally violent guards, rioting ...

Dangerous prisons around the world exist, with some prisons having entire cities located inside them. These, in particular, are the most violent prisons in the world.a ...

A fortnight into her new job as governor of an overcrowded, understaffed jail, Sharanne Findlay faced what she described as the worst week of her career. Angry prisoners at HMP Glenochil in ...

ROGERS -- The prison population in Arkansas is on a steady upward trend that is expected to continue through 2035, one of the nation's leading experts on corrections analysis told state lawmakers last ...

Two Nebraska inmates sued the state's new corrections director Friday, alleging overcrowding at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution is resulting in the intentional infliction of emotional distress ...

South Dakota lawmakers have agreed to replace one of the nation's oldest prisons, a lockup that predates the state itself. Legislators narrowly passed a bill Tuesday night in a special session to ...