Overcrowded Nebraska prisons force some inmates to share cells that were designed for just one person. Experts say this can ...

A decade after he broke out of an upstate New York prison and embarked on a notorious 23-day run with fellow inmate Richard ...

A 17-year-old at Oregon’s largest locked youth detention center was held for 32 days in a dirty isolation cell that reeked of ...

"This kid has been sleeping on a cement floor for five days, no access to a shower; he's brushed his teeth twice," said the ...

It’s been over a month since inmates at one of Virginia’s maximum security correctional centers – Wallens Ridge-- attacked ...

German anti-fascist activist Maja T., has been held in isolation in a Hungarian prison for one year now. The case highlights ...

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

It comes after one staff member required emergency surgery after being stabbed by an inmate at HMP Long Lartin.

Here’s to the men and women who refuse to be intimidated by fear — and here’s to freedom: ours now and my father’s, hopefully soon...' ...

Pregnant people are undergoing constant horrors at the hands of the carceral state, and the laws we’ve passed aren’t helping ...

Turkish prisoners have initiated an indefinite hunger strike to protest the severe isolation prevalent in S-, Y-, and R-type ...

Objective To summarise the extent and quality of evidence on the association between prison cell spatial density (a measure of crowding) and infectious and communicable diseases transmission among ...