The Pennsylvania System came up with the idea of solitary confinement. The goal was to have prisoners contemplate their ...

When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have ...

Special housing units that provide increased therapy for those incarcerated are more helpful than putting a person solitary ...

In a unique alliance, prisoners at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and California district attorneys are championing ...

It’s the first such order in the mounting legal saga surrounding President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of men to a supermax prison in El Salvador notorious ...

The prison officials discovered the cat sneaking over a barbed wire fence, according to video posted online Prison officials in Costa Rica caught an unlikely suspect attempting to smuggle drugs ...

France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 movie “Papillon ...

A sign urging silence is seen along a wooded trail on May 5 at Pacem in Terris hermitage retreat center, a Christian retreat space in Isanti County that's open to all and dedicated to solitude and ...

A method for keeping illegal drugs out of the state prisons is being challenged as an invasion of privacy for incarcerated Ohioans. The Ohio Justice & Policy Center, a Cincinnati-based nonprofit ...

(El Salvador presidential press office/Reuters) In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang ...

A researcher at the University of Washington found that isolated confinement among bumblebees alters the brain and body, which could have implications for incarcerated humans. New research confirms ...

Archaeologists in a central Tasmanian town have uncovered the footings of colonial-era solitary cells and gallows from the former Oatlands Gaol, which was buried under an old council swimming pool.