The Statesman Journal spoke to one of five people suing the Oregon Department of Corrections for its solitary confinement ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections confined inmates in “dungeon-like conditions” in solitary confinement and refused to ...

Amidst a heat wave in Madison, people who were once incarcerated in Wisconsin’s prison system and supporters gathered ...

Columbia Legal Services has filed a class‑action lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Corrections over what it ...

NARA—The historic Nara Prison from the Meiji Era (1868-1912) has at last reopened as a luxury hotel whose proceeds will go ...

Advocates gathered today to call for changes to Wisconsin's prison system, talking about overcrowding in corrections ...

We do want a fundamental restructuring,’ says the founder of Youth to End Solitary SD. His group will sit down Wednesday with ...

As prisons go, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia was unusually luxurious. For one, it had flush toilets — beating ...

A report found the sheriff's office has implemented several recommendations from a 2022 audit of jail conditions, but a few ...

While many Americans prepared to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday, and the freedoms represented thereby, New York state ...

Australians who have endured prolonged detention overseas call on the government to adopt a more strategic approach to cases ...

For around a year, Hamada al-Banna was missing after he set out to obtain a sack of wheat flour from humanitarian aid trucks ...