In the harsh corridors of the American prison system, stories of fear and survival echo through the walls. Among them is the haunting tale of the youngest and most feared inmate to ever walk those ...

A Black man in Louisiana who was serving a life sentence over two bags of weed worth only $20 has finally been freed from prison after 12 years. I didn’t need any further proof that the American ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Former federal prison warden Percy Pitzer has published "A Warden's Path," drawing from his career in corrections to advocate for prison reform and better community reintegration of ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele received the first harvest last weekend from his country’s novel cash crop: criminals. Planes flying ...

"They don't want the public to see what's really going on on the inside..." HBO Max has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled The Alabama Solution, an extraordinary inside look at ...

For more than 40 years, the United States—a nation that putatively cherishes freedom—has had one of the largest prison systems in the world. Mass incarceration has been so persistent and pervasive ...

(WJAR) — Three inmates of Native American ancestry are suing Rhode Island’s prison system, claiming their religious rights are being violated by not being allowed to participate in ceremonies and have ...

The American prison system wasn’t built to fail. But right now it’s struggling. I’ve seen it from both sides. A gang leader in my youth, I spent 14 years in prison, facing a 100-year sentence for ...

Gov. Tony Evers announced a massive corrections overhaul that would completely change the structure of Wisconsin’s prison system. His proposed plan carries a price tag of $535 million and aims to ...

ALBANY — The last six unprecedented months in New York’s prison system, which included a fatal beating of a prisoner and the longest strike by prison guards in state history, could create an ...