Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, over 20 percent of the world's prisoners ...

Donald Trump could send US citizens and legal residents who are locked up in the US to El Salvador's fearsome CECOT prison as ...

Donald Trump has deported more than 250 alleged gang members to El Salvador to be incarcerated in the fearsome CECOT prison, ...

Socorro County has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who alleges he was forced to live surrounded by his own waste in a county jail cell with no running water for weeks, ...

The United States has deported hundreds of migrants to El Salvador where they have been placed in the notorious CECOT prison ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in ...

Hannibal the Cannibal' Robert Maudsley, 71, has been in solitary confinement in a glass cell for 46 years after he killed ...

The recent death of Pol Col Thitisan "Joe Ferrari" Utthanapon, who was serving a life sentence at Klongprem Central Prison in ...

The latest data from the Prison Policy Initiative paints a disturbing picture of how our criminal justice system fails to ...

As of now, people incarcerated who end up in solitary confinement can be given up to 15 days with two hours of out-of-cell time. For more serious offenses, they can be given a maximum of 30 days with ...

Joe Biggs is one of only 14 people in the entire country to face any lasting legal consequences for the Capitol attack, ...